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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>,
	"ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <x86@kernel.org>,
	coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org>
Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:48:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540A2FB4.6060605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540A2DD1.1040002@gmail.com>

On 09/05/2014 02:40 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 06.09.2014 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 09/05/2014 02:23 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>> wrote:
>>> On 06.09.2014 00:18, ron minnich wrote:
>>>> Vladimir can you point me to that patch? This sounds 
>>>> interesting.
>>>> 
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/25/190
>>> 
>> 
>> I believe *most* of this patch has already gotten merged as we
>> now use simplefb on x86 as well.  So all we need is probably the
>> ID.
>> 
> Yes, efifb has the same semantics. We just need some ID with clear 
> documentation saying sth like "implies framebuffer without
> anything else" so that noone will get an idea to plug e.g. vga
> hooks into it.
> 

Want to make a patch?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 10:25 [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support Gerd Hoffmann
2014-09-05 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:55   ` [coreboot] " ron minnich
2014-09-05 21:09   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-09-05 21:18     ` ron minnich
2014-09-05 21:23       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-09-05 21:31         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 21:40           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-09-05 21:48             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-09  6:15               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-09-05 21:20     ` H. Peter Anvin

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