Re: Regression: Screen turns off when booting in EFI mode

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Mar 25 2013 - 19:55:36 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:52:14AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>> Because it's the only way to get the PCI ROM in some cases, like on
> >>> pretty much all Apples with Radeons. Only using it if we have no other
> >>> options probably makes sense, though. Something like this (entirely
> >>> untested)?
> >>
> >> This looks reasonable. Mantas?
> >
> > It compiles, boots, and even makes the graphics card work again.
> > So it looks good to me.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927451
>
> popped up sounds like a regression caused by this.

Sigh. I guess we need to figure out where it thinks it's getting that
image from. The alternative is basically to go back to what Linus
suggested, remove this from pci_map_rom() and add an explicit lookup to
the video drivers.

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