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Ard Biesheuvel
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Move the x86 EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location under drivers/firmware and tweak it slightly so we can expose it as an earlycon implementation (which is generic) rather than earlyprintk (which is only implemented for a few architectures) This also involves switching to write-combine mappings by default (which is required on ARM since device mappings lack memory semantics, and so memcpy/memset may not be used on them), and adding support for shared memory framebuffers on cache coherent non-x86 systems (which do not tolerate mismatched attributes). Note that 32-bit ARM does not populate its struct screen_info early enough for earlycon=efifb to work, so it is disabled there. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <[email protected]> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <[email protected]> Cc: Lee Jones <[email protected]> Cc: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Jones <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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