Re: [PATCH] efi earlyprintk fix

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Nov 07 2013 - 07:01:13 EST


On 11/06/13 at 08:49am, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Nov, at 08:58:53PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 11/04/13 at 10:37am, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > On Sun, 03 Nov, at 08:16:47PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > > >
> > > > there's below one line shift problem:
> > > >
> > > > ACPI=0xdabfe000 ACPI 2.0=0xdabfe014 SMBIOS=0xdaa9e000
> > > > [ 0.000000] efi:
> > > >
> > > > In fact check efi_y and the lfb_height should be compared at the begin of the
> > > > loop of early_efi_write
> > >
> > > Hmm... this is interesting. I can't produce this on any of my machines.
> > > Where did you see this? What hardware?
> >
> > It's my laptop Thinkpad T420, the screen scolls very fast, I use boot_delay=500
> > to verify it with my patch for moving boot_delay param an early param.
>
> Dave, how are you booting your laptop? Are you using grub? Does the
> earlyprintk output start at the bottom of the screen? Do you set any
> parameters for efifb?

I tried both grub and efi stub. The messages seems come from the n-1 line
of the screen. I did not set any parameters by myself.
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