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[U-Boot,01/11] x86: doc: Document coreboot framebuffer driver issue on QEMU

Message ID 1476011660-6780-2-git-send-email-bmeng.cn@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit 4dc5e54da31c810c988a0122fcd50b7d6f70354a
Delegated to: Bin Meng
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Bin Meng Oct. 9, 2016, 11:14 a.m. UTC
For some unknown reason, coreboot framebuffer driver never works on
QEMU since day 1. It seems the driver only works on real hardware.
Document this issue.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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 doc/README.x86 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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Simon Glass Oct. 12, 2016, 12:06 a.m. UTC | #1
On 9 October 2016 at 05:14, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some unknown reason, coreboot framebuffer driver never works on
> QEMU since day 1. It seems the driver only works on real hardware.
> Document this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  doc/README.x86 | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Bin Meng Oct. 12, 2016, 3:09 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> On 9 October 2016 at 05:14, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For some unknown reason, coreboot framebuffer driver never works on
>> QEMU since day 1. It seems the driver only works on real hardware.
>> Document this issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  doc/README.x86 | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!
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diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
index ba5bb99..437dc29 100644
--- a/doc/README.x86
+++ b/doc/README.x86
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@  At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through
 the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This
 works correctly for link though.
 
+Note: coreboot framebuffer driver does not work on QEMU. The reason is unknown
+at this point. Patches are welcome if you figure out anything wrong.
+
 Test with QEMU for bare mode
 ----------------------------
 QEMU is a fancy emulator that can enable us to test U-Boot without access to