vgacon: checking for efi machine
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PATCH 1/1 vgacon: checking for efi machine
It seems there is a small problem of VGA palette corruption on EFI machine. When the kernel initializes the architecture, it checks if themachine is a EFI machine and assumes that a VGA console can exist. When it initialize the console in vgacon_startup it checks if itcan really use the VGA console. I think this is where a check ismissing. Currently, the function can fail if a VESA boot mode isdetected but not if a EFI boot mode was used. Thus, the function vgacon_startup doesn't fail and initialize thevideo card for a real VGA mode. This function change the first 16entries of the VGA palette. When the efifb driver kick-in, the paletteis not restored to default ramp value, thus the 16 first entry remain ina modified state. The following patch prevent this corruption.
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drivers/video/console/vgacon.c +2 -1
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@u16 saved1, saved2;volatile u16 *p; -if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA ==VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB ) { +if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA ==VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB || + screen_info.orig_video_isVGA ==VIDEO_TYPE_EFI ) { no_vga: #ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE conswitchp =&dummy_con;