Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support

2013-10-13 Thread Matt Fleming
On Sat, 12 Oct, at 07:56:15PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: +static void early_efi_write_char(u32 *dst, unsigned char c, unsigned int h) +{ + const u32 color_black = 0x; + const u32 color_grey = 0x00aa; I still think this should be white - that should be more visible than grey,

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support

2013-10-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Fleming m...@console-pimps.org wrote: From: Matt Fleming matt.flem...@intel.com It's incredibly difficult to diagnose early EFI boot issues without special hardware because earlyprintk=vga doesn't work on EFI systems. Add support for writing to the EFI framebuffer, via