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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> | 2019-02-02 10:41:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-02-04 08:27:30 +0100 |
| commit | 69c1f396f25b805aeff08f06d2e992c315ee5b1e (patch) | |
| tree | 7463653c8bd95300d4ae5697f00a4e061f8c613d /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | ce9084ba0d1d8030adee7038ace32f8d9d423d0f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-69c1f396f25b805aeff08f06d2e992c315ee5b1e.tar.gz lwn-69c1f396f25b805aeff08f06d2e992c315ee5b1e.zip | |
efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation
Move the x86 EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location under
drivers/firmware and tweak it slightly so we can expose it as an earlycon
implementation (which is generic) rather than earlyprintk (which is only
implemented for a few architectures)
This also involves switching to write-combine mappings by default (which
is required on ARM since device mappings lack memory semantics, and so
memcpy/memset may not be used on them), and adding support for shared
memory framebuffers on cache coherent non-x86 systems (which do not
tolerate mismatched attributes).
Note that 32-bit ARM does not populate its struct screen_info early
enough for earlycon=efifb to work, so it is disabled there.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202094119.13230-10-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index b799bcf67d7b..76dd3baa31e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1073,9 +1073,15 @@ specified address. The serial port must already be setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + efifb,[options] + Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI + memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache + coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for + the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is + mapped with the correct attributes. + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390] earlyprintk=vga - earlyprintk=efi earlyprintk=sclp earlyprintk=xen earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] |