Re: [PATCH] X86: Improve GOP detection in the EFI boot stub

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 18:00 -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> We currently use the PCI IO protocol as a proxy for a functional GOP. This
> is less than ideal, since some platforms will put the GOP on output devices
> rather than the GPU itself. Move to using the conout protocol. This is not
> guaranteed per-spec, but is part of the consplitter implementation that
> causes this problem in the first place and so should be reliable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.h |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>


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