[PATCH] doc: coreboot: Update stale graphics enabling instructions
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 10 20:50:15 CEST 2024
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 16:25, Bin Meng <bmeng at tinylab.org> wrote:
>
> From: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>
> With latest coreboot (e.g.: v4.22.01), the instructions to enable
> graphics support has changed. Refresh the doc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst | 11 +++++------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> diff --git a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
> index f2c6452b5b..8408461617 100644
> --- a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
> +++ b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
> @@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ of _x86boot_start (in arch/x86/cpu/start.S).
> If you want to use ELF as the coreboot payload, change U-Boot configuration to
> use CONFIG_OF_EMBED instead of CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE.
>
> -To enable video you must enable these options in coreboot:
> +To enable video you must enable CONFIG_GENERIC_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER in coreboot:
>
> - - Set framebuffer graphics resolution (1280x1024 32k-color (1:5:5))
> - - Keep VESA framebuffer
> + - Devices->Display->Framebuffer mode->Linear "high resolution" framebuffer
>
> 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
> @@ -184,9 +183,9 @@ boot as a coreboot payload, based on a known-good build of coreboot.
>
> To update the `coreboot.rom` file which is used:
>
> -#. Build coreboot with `CONFIG_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER=y`. If using `make menuconfig`
> - this is under
> - `Devices ->Display->Framebuffer mode->Linear "high resolution" framebuffer`.
> +#. Build coreboot with `CONFIG_GENERIC_LINEAR_FRAMEBUFFER=y`. If using
> + `make menuconfig`, this is under
> + `Devices->Display->Framebuffer mode->Linear "high resolution" framebuffer`.
>
> #. Compress the resulting `coreboot.rom`::
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
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