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      efifb: dmi set video type · e14a685d
      Brian Maly 提交于
      The current logic for dmi matching in efifb does not allow efifb to load
      on all hardware that we can dmi match for.
      
      For a real world example, boot with elilo (3.7 or 3.8 vanilla) and on a
      Apple (MacBook) and EFI framebuffer driver will not load (you will have no
      video).  This specific hardware is efi v1.10, so we have UGA and not GOP.
      Without special bootloader magic (i.e.  extra elilo patches for UGA
      graphics detection) no screen info will be passed to the kernel and as a
      result efifb will not load.
      
      This patch allows the dmi match to happen by moving it to earlier in
      efifb_init, and sets the video type (in set_system) so that efifb can load
      when we have a valid dmi match and already know the specifics of the
      hardware.
      
      Without this patch the efifb driver will fail to load in the event screen
      info is not found and passed in by the bootloader, being that we will
      never get to look for a dmi match.  A primary reason for matching with dmi
      is because not all bootloaders detect the video info properly.  The
      solution is that in the event of a dmi match, we should set
      screen_info.orig_video_isVGA.  Most bootloaders fail to set screen info on
      Apple hardware, and this is a big problem for people who use Apple
      hardware.
      
      Tested on a MacBook SantaRosa with elilo-3.8 (vanilla) and resolves the
      issue, the dmi match now works, EFI framebuffer now loads and video works.
      Signed-off-by: NBrian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
      Cc: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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