On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:24:21AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 13.02.2014 01:23, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >> Looking through the output of > >> > > >> > $ git grep k8t890 src/mainboard/ > >> > > >> > the boards Asus A8V-E Deluxe, Asus A8V-E SE, Asus K8V-X, Asus M2V-MX SE > >> > and Asus M2V should theoretically support that. > > Okay. The SeaVGABIOS implementation is expecting a coreboot table > > (LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER). So, as long as that is present it should work. > > > LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER is present only if display is placed in graphics > mode, otherwise EGA text mode is assumed. > EGA text mode is much easier to make use of (including for oprom) and > more compatible than graphics counterpart. > Lenovo X201 init makes use of EGA text mode as well.
The SeaVGABIOS code I published is looking for a graphics framebuffer. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
