git: ad4277c7250c - stable/12 - vt/vga: ignore ACPI_FADT_NO_VGA unless running virtualized
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:51:57 UTC
The branch stable/12 has been updated by royger: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ad4277c7250cc8d26b6acdbc2efa21cfe97c9b51 commit ad4277c7250cc8d26b6acdbc2efa21cfe97c9b51 Author: Roger Pau Monné <royger@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-24 15:53:30 +0000 Commit: Roger Pau Monné <royger@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-23 13:50:33 +0000 vt/vga: ignore ACPI_FADT_NO_VGA unless running virtualized There's too many broken hardware out there that wrongly has the ACPI_FADT_NO_VGA bit set. Ignore it unless running as a virtualized guest, as then the expectation would be that the hypervisor does provide correct ACPI tables. Reviewed by: emaste, 0mp, eugen Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D PR: 230172 (cherry picked from commit 0518832011caba1e9dcee054d7884797ed8a74c2) --- share/man/man4/vt.4 | 5 ++++- sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/vt.4 b/share/man/man4/vt.4 index e057ca6e0351..9c8019925544 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/vt.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/vt.4 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 4, 2022 +.Dd March 17, 2022 .Dt "VT" 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ graphics mode. Set to 1 to force the usage of the VGA driver regardless of whether ACPI IAPC_BOOT_ARCH signals no VGA support. Can be used to workaround firmware bugs in the ACPI tables. +Note no VGA support is only acknowledged when running virtualized. +There is too many broken firmware that wrongly reports no VGA support on +physical hardware. .It Va kern.vty Set this value to .Ql vt diff --git a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c index bac8f3eb7b97..d457f8c7b31d 100644 --- a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c +++ b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c @@ -1261,7 +1261,11 @@ vga_acpi_disabled(void) uint16_t flags; int ignore; - ignore = 0; + /* + * Ignore the flag on real hardware: there's a lot of buggy firmware + * that will wrongly set it. + */ + ignore = (vm_guest == VM_GUEST_NO); TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga", &ignore); if (ignore || !acpi_get_fadt_bootflags(&flags)) return (false);