Re: [PATCH v1] ramfb: Add property to control if load the romfile

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>]

On 6/5/25 14:21, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>>> Now the ramfb will load the vgabios-ramfb.bin unconditionally, but only
>>> the x86 need the vgabios-ramfb.bin, this can cause that when use the
>>> release package on arm64 it can't find the vgabios-ramfb.bin.
> 
>> Simpler to directly pass the ROM path instead of using a boolean,
>> so board (or CLI) could pass path to non-x86 rom.
> 
> The rom is loaded into a fw_cfg file which only seabios will look at.
> So this rom logic is x86-specific.
> 
> edk2 ships an EFI driver for ramfb, that is how ramfb is used on !x86
> platforms today, and I don't expect that to change.

Should we also set the vfio-pci::ramfb-romfile property to false in
a compat property for ARM machines then ? I don't know for RISC-V and
PPC.


C.
  
> IMHO a bool is perfectly fine here, I don't think we will ever need the
> flexibility to specify some other rom here.
> > take care,
>    Gerd
>