From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com
Subject: Re: efi, x86, pci: Improve graphics support on some Apple hardware
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:59:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120727035940.GA7119@thinkpad-t410> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343340169-7772-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 06:02:45PM -0400, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Some Apple machines only provide their video ROM via an EFI-specific mechanism
> and don't permit it to be retrieved from the BAR. Add infrastructure to stash
> it and provide access to drivers.
I've verified that these patches produce funtioning radeon graphics on
both the Macbook Pro 8,2 and Mac Mini 5,2 under native EFI boot.
Previously the radeon driver did not work on these machines due to
failure to locate the video ROM. So for the whole series:
Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-27 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-26 22:02 efi, x86, pci: Improve graphics support on some Apple hardware Matthew Garrett
2012-07-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR Matthew Garrett
2012-07-27 15:10 ` Seth Forshee
2012-07-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] PCI: Add pcibios_add_device Matthew Garrett
2012-07-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] PCI: Add support for non-BAR ROMs Matthew Garrett
2012-07-27 15:11 ` Seth Forshee
2012-07-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] X86: Use PCI setup data Matthew Garrett
2012-07-27 3:59 ` Seth Forshee [this message]
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