[PATCH 0/8] EFI framebuffer support for ARM and arm64

Mark Langsdorf mlangsdo at redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 08:12:01 PST 2016


On 03/09/2016 11:40 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This series adds support to ARM and arm64 for using the kernel's EFI
> framebuffer driver to drive EFI Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) based
> framebuffers.
>
> This involves refactoring some of the existing x86 code so it can be reused
> by ARM and arm64, and wiring it up both in the UEFI stub and in the core
> kernel into the existing UEFI infrastructure for ARM and arm64.

Given that I have access to a variety of different ARM64 UEFI
implementations, how would I go about testing this code? Do I
need a specific UEFI implementation and are there any special
command line arguments I should pass to the kernel?

--Mark Langsdorf




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