[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 46/47] x86: Gracefully disable the vesa driver when running from EFI

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Jul 31 17:32:03 CEST 2015


We cannot use this driver when running from EFI as we have no direct hardware
access. In fact coreboot uses a different driver which uses tables provided
by coreboot. So far it does not seem possible to use a normal video driver
when booting from EFI.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Replace 'Coreboot' with 'coreboot'

 drivers/video/vesa_fb.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/vesa_fb.c b/drivers/video/vesa_fb.c
index 909f8e8..4e6d070 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vesa_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vesa_fb.c
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ void *video_hw_init(void)
 	int ret;
 
 	printf("Video: ");
+	if (!ll_boot_init()) {
+		/*
+		 * If we are running from EFI or coreboot, this driver can't
+		 * work.
+		 */
+		printf("Not available (previous bootloader prevents it)\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	if (vbe_get_video_info(gdev)) {
 		dev = pci_find_class(PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA << 8, 0);
 		if (dev == -1) {
-- 
2.5.0.rc2.392.g76e840b



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