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Ard Biesheuvel cefbbb3d08 ArmVirtPkg: remove QemuVideoDxe from ArmVirtQemu and ArmVirtQemuKernel
One of the reasons for introducing virtio-gpu support to OvmfPkg and
ArmVirtpkg was the fact that under KVM virtualization on ARM, the
legacy VGA cannot be used reliably. This is due to an implementation
detail of QEMU+KVM, which remaps cached host memory into the guest
address space as a framebuffer behind a PCI BAR. Given that the purpose
of a memory mapped framebuffer is its side effects, such BARs should
never be mapped cacheable in the guest, and the mismatched attributes
between host and guest result in a loss of coherency, visible as
corruption in the framebuffer image.

This issue does not occur under TCG emulation, nor did we expect it to
actually bring down the guest under KVM, and so it was deemed harmless
to keep support for the VGA device as well. However, as it turns out,
the fact that the framebuffer BAR is mapped using device semantics by
default may result in unalignment faults when we use the ordinary string
copy routines on the contents. In theory, we could work around this by
remapping the BAR as write combining, but it appears the generic PCI
bus driver does not actually implement this.

So let's remove the QemuVideoDxe driver altogether. This may result
in loss of functionality for use cases that rely on the framebuffer
to be directly addressable (such as EFIFB), but given that this never
worked reliably under KVM in the first place, let's not let that stop
us from dropping support for it.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
2017-08-24 13:15:38 +01:00
AppPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
ArmPkg ArmPkg/ArmDmaLib: use double buffering only for bus master write 2017-08-17 15:32:30 +01:00
ArmPlatformPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
ArmVirtPkg ArmVirtPkg: remove QemuVideoDxe from ArmVirtQemu and ArmVirtQemuKernel 2017-08-24 13:15:38 +01:00
BaseTools BaseTools: Roll back GenFw Change to keep unknown field in RSDS debug entry 2017-08-24 11:21:27 +08:00
BeagleBoardPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
Conf
CorebootModulePkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
CorebootPayloadPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
CryptoPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
DuetPkg DuetPkg: Fix Xcode 9 Beta treating 32-bit left shift as undefined 2017-08-11 08:44:54 +08:00
EdkCompatibilityPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
EdkShellBinPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
EdkShellPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
EmbeddedPkg EmbeddedPkg/AndroidBoot: boot android kernel from storage 2017-08-20 12:36:34 +01:00
EmulatorPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
FatBinPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
FatPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelFrameworkModulePkg IntelFrameworkModulePkg: Fix Xcode 9 Beta treating 32-bit left shift as undefined 2017-08-11 08:46:15 +08:00
IntelFrameworkPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelFsp2Pkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelFsp2WrapperPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelFspPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelFspWrapperPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
IntelSiliconPkg IntelSiliconPkg/IntelVTdDxe: Update function comments 2017-08-17 11:47:01 +08:00
MdeModulePkg MdeModulePkg/DriverSample: Add sample case for popup protocol 2017-08-23 10:37:14 +08:00
MdePkg MdePkg/HiiPopup: Add HII Popup Protocol definitions 2017-08-23 10:37:14 +08:00
NetworkPkg NetworkPkg/Ip6Dxe: Fix the bug when checking the DataSize 2017-08-17 08:18:27 +08:00
Nt32Pkg Nt32/PlatformBootManagerLib: Enable STD_ERROR on all consoles 2017-08-15 08:30:55 -07:00
Omap35xxPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
OptionRomPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
OvmfPkg OvmfPkg/build.sh: select the GCC49 toolchain settings for gcc-7.* 2017-08-17 11:30:52 +02:00
PcAtChipsetPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
PerformancePkg PerformancePkg DP: Init CustomCumulativeData.MinDur 2017-08-14 16:55:44 +08:00
QuarkPlatformPkg QuarkPlatformPkg/Readme.md: Bring Readme.md up to date 2017-08-10 09:44:24 -07:00
QuarkSocPkg QuarkSocPkg/QNCSmmDispatcher: Fix use after free issue #2 2017-08-16 19:42:17 -07:00
SecurityPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
ShellBinPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
ShellPkg ShellPkg/mkdir: support creating nested directories 2017-08-21 10:42:39 +08:00
SignedCapsulePkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
SourceLevelDebugPkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
StdLib edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
StdLibPrivateInternalFiles edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
UefiCpuPkg UefiCpuPkg/PiSmmCpuDxeSmm: Add CPUID MCA support check 2017-08-17 10:49:50 -07:00
UnixPkg
Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Vlv2TbltDevicePkg: Remove reference deprecated macro. 2017-08-07 15:28:13 +08:00
.gitignore edk2: Add .DS_Store to .gitignore for macOS 2017-05-19 15:14:34 -07:00
BuildNotes2.txt
Contributions.txt edk2: Fix typo in Contributions.txt 2017-08-16 17:50:44 +08:00
Edk2Setup.bat Edk2Setup.bat: Fix build errors from VS tools PREFIX ENV missing 2016-11-05 09:10:58 +08:00
License.txt edk2: Move License.txt file to root 2017-08-03 11:02:17 -07:00
Maintainers.txt Maintainers.txt: Update the Maintainers for IntelFrameworkXXXPkg 2017-08-23 14:15:20 +08:00
Readme.md edk2: Add Readme.md to root of edk2 repository 2017-08-03 11:02:25 -07:00
edksetup.bat BaseTools: suppress usage instructions with rebuild options 2017-07-04 10:16:13 +08:00
edksetup.sh BaseTools/edksetup.sh: fix invalid test for current working directory 2017-08-10 12:54:58 +08:00

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EDK II Project

A modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications from www.uefi.org.

Contributions to the EDK II open source project are covered by the TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1

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The EDK II Project is composed of packages. The maintainers for each package are listed in Maintainers.txt.

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