[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] sunxi: video: mark framebuffer as EFI reserved memory

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 03/05/2018 08:19 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> Hi Heinrich,
> 
> On Sat,  3 Mar 2018 10:30:17 +0100
> Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de wrote:
> 
>> Inform the EFI subsystem that the framebuffer memory is reserved.
>>
>> Without the patch the AllocatePool boot service allocates memory from the
>> framebuffer which will will be overwritten by screen output.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> 
> Should this patch be merged into v2018.03 release or can it wait?

Hello Anatolij,

v2018.05 is fine. The problem will become visible in more cases with

[PATCH 1/1] efi_loader: efi_allocate_pages is too restrictive
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/881055/
https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-March/321840.html

which is also pending.

Regards

Heinrich