Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] x86: add coreboot framebuffer support

[H. Peter Anvin]

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