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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Shaoqin Huang" <shahuang@redhat.com>,
	qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Eric Auger" <eauger@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ramfb: Add property to control if load the romfile
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 17:11:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68f4f244-db07-4f65-9ca5-3cb9b70c9e61@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kep5frpl24d74evoyf367pqkyoj6xez2pirk7xlzcoompyzq4c@ouxab77sdm55>

On 5/6/25 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.
> 
> IMHO a bool is perfectly fine here, I don't think we will ever need the
> flexibility to specify some other rom here.

Understood, better then! Maybe name the boolean "use_legacy_x86_rom" and
add a comment explaining EFI driver is expected on !x86?

Regards,

Phil.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-06-05 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-05  3:03 [PATCH v1] ramfb: Add property to control if load the romfile Shaoqin Huang
2025-06-05  5:11 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-06-05 12:21   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2025-06-05 14:24     ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-05 14:40       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-06-06  6:59         ` Shaoqin Huang
2025-06-05 15:11     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2025-06-06  3:20       ` Shaoqin Huang
2025-06-06  6:36         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-06-05 14:26 ` Cédric Le Goater

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