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Re: [PATCH] New frame buffer detection algorithm and loadrom command for


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New frame buffer detection algorithm and loadrom command for efi platform
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:01:15 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:12PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch improves the frame buffer detection algorithm. It uses pci
> to find the video memory base, then scan it for frame buffer.

With this detection code getting increasingly more sophisticated, wouldn't
this be a good time to make it a video backend?  (i.e. video/efi.c)

Even if it won't be complete enough for gfxterm yet, it's much better than
doing it in i386/efi/linux.c IMHO.

The code to obtain framebuffer address from video backends is pretty simple.
It's already in i386/linux.c and could be easily integrated into
i386/efi/linux.c.

-- 
Robert Millan

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