On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:29 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > From: Matt Fleming <matt.flem...@intel.com> > > The efi_enabled variable has come to mean "Do we have EFI runtime > services available?". However, lack of EFI runtime services does not > mean that we should switch to using the VGA console. Provided that the > boot loader passed the dimensions of the EFI framebuffer there is no > reason we can't use efifb. > > There's also no reason to check the memory type of 0xa0000 - whether > or not that memory region is EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY is immaterial - > the EFI framebuffer device will still work, and checking the EFI > memory type of a memory region on a non-EFI machine is illogical. > > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> > Cc: Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> > Cc: Olof Johansson <o...@lixom.net> > Cc: Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.flem...@intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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