[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 14/18] bootvx: x86: Make VxWorks EFI console driver happy

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 09:16:52 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 11 April 2018 at 23:02, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When booting from EFI BIOS, VxWorks bootloader stores the EFI GOP
>> framebuffer info at a pre-defined offset @ 0x6100. When VxWorks
>> kernel boots up, its EFI console driver tries to find such a block
>> and if the signature matches, the framebuffer information will be
>> used to initialize the driver.
>>
>> However it is not necessary to prepare an EFI environment for
>> VxWorks's EFI console driver to function (eg: EFI loader in
>> U-Boot). If U-Boot has already initialized the graphics card and
>> set it to a VESA mode that is compatible with EFI GOP, we can
>> simply prepare such a block for VxWorks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>>  cmd/elf.c         | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/vxworks.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!


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