Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755969Ab3JKGWG (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:22:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ea0-f181.google.com ([209.85.215.181]:60244 "EHLO mail-ea0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752335Ab3JKGWE (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:22:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:21:59 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Peter Jones , Matt Fleming , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Fleming , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support Message-ID: <20131011062159.GD4975@gmail.com> References: <1381423261-30566-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> <20131010172844.GA26430@gmail.com> <20131010173710.GA18821@fenchurch.internal.datastacks.com> <20131010174521.GA27218@gmail.com> <20131010175828.GA9065@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131010175828.GA9065@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 27 * Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Also, the main question would be, what is the typical value for > > si->lfb_depth. 32 on almost all EFI systems? All around the map? Depends > > on what graphics state the EFI bootloader passes us? > > Microsoft require that it be 32, so in practice I suspect it'll always > be 32. [...] Ok, cool - and it's a rare sight: Microsoft standing up against bloat and complexity. > [...] It's possible that Itanium decides to be different. That would be a feature! Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/