From patchwork Wed Mar 4 22:55:29 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alex Hung X-Patchwork-Id: 11420941 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7DD924 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 22:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE6B21741 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 22:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388312AbgCDWzz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:55:55 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:46881 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725875AbgCDWzz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:55:55 -0500 Received: from 2.general.alexhung.us.vpn ([10.172.65.255] helo=canonical.com) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1j9cvL-0007N9-Ky; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:55:32 +0000 From: Alex Hung To: corbet@lwn.net, rjw@rjwysocki.net, len.brown@intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com, jgross@suse.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, alex.hung@canonical.com Subject: [PATCH][RESEND] acpi/x86: add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRT Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:55:29 -0700 Message-Id: <20200304225529.6706-1-alex.hung@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org BGRT is for displaying seamless OEM logo from booting to login screen; however, this mechanism does not always work well on all configurations and the OEM logo can be displayed multiple times. This looks worse than without BGRT enabled. This patch adds a kernel parameter to disable BGRT in boot time. This is easier than re-compiling a kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT disabled. Signed-off-by: Alex Hung --- * Resend to include linux-acpi emailing list Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++ arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index ffff776..55c5b2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -442,6 +442,9 @@ bert_disable [ACPI] Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. + bgrt_disable [ACPI][X86] + Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. + bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as kernel args too. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c index 04205ce..d1757ce 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_disabled); #define PREFIX "ACPI: " int acpi_noirq; /* skip ACPI IRQ initialization */ +int acpi_nobgrt; /* skip ACPI BGRT */ int acpi_pci_disabled; /* skip ACPI PCI scan and IRQ initialization */ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_pci_disabled); @@ -1619,7 +1620,7 @@ int __init acpi_boot_init(void) acpi_process_madt(); acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_HPET, acpi_parse_hpet); - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT)) + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT) && !acpi_nobgrt) acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BGRT, acpi_parse_bgrt); if (!acpi_noirq) @@ -1671,6 +1672,13 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg) } early_param("acpi", parse_acpi); +static int __init parse_acpi_bgrt(char *arg) +{ + acpi_nobgrt = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("bgrt_disable", parse_acpi_bgrt); + /* FIXME: Using pci= for an ACPI parameter is a travesty. */ static int __init parse_pci(char *arg) {