[coreboot] [PATCH 0/5] coreboot table bus and framebuffer driver

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Apr 23 13:37:53 CEST 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:22:04PM +0000, Julius Werner wrote:
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> > It would be great to get some of the google developers to ack these, as
> > this touches their code...
> 
>  From the coreboot point of view I guess we're fine with it since it claims
> to maintain all of the existing functionality. It's just changing the
> kernel-level plumbing for these drivers and I don't really have the
> expertise to comment on whether this is better or worse than the old code
> (maybe Dmitry or Guenter will?). It seems a little odd to me to call this a
> "bus", but if we think that's the most fitting abstraction the kernel has
> for it, I'm okay with that. All I care about is that it will work (in all
> combinations... e.g. regardless of probe order and even if some parts are
> compiled as modules and loaded/unloaded at runtime).

Thanks for the response, patches are all now queued up.

greg k-h



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