[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/11] x86: doc: Document coreboot framebuffer driver issue on QEMU

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 13:14:10 CEST 2016


For some unknown reason, coreboot framebuffer driver never works on
QEMU since day 1. It seems the driver only works on real hardware.
Document this issue.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
---

 doc/README.x86 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/README.x86 b/doc/README.x86
index ba5bb99..437dc29 100644
--- a/doc/README.x86
+++ b/doc/README.x86
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ At present it seems that for Minnowboard Max, coreboot does not pass through
 the video information correctly (it always says the resolution is 0x0). This
 works correctly for link though.
 
+Note: coreboot framebuffer driver does not work on QEMU. The reason is unknown
+at this point. Patches are welcome if you figure out anything wrong.
+
 Test with QEMU for bare mode
 ----------------------------
 QEMU is a fancy emulator that can enable us to test U-Boot without access to
-- 
2.9.2



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