Comment # 27 on bug 1219180 from Dario Faggioli

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #26)
> (In reply to Claudio Fontana from comment #25)
> > I do not see anything to do here, can we close?
> 
> The bug report is about efifb not working with qemu-system-aarch64.
>
Right, so...

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #7)
> So a question for the virtualization team (qemu + ovmf): What's the right
> controller to use to get this to work? I guess ramfb might work but it's too
> limited to be usable in practice.

...I may still be missing something (not an ARM guy), but my impression is that
it's either virtio-gpu-pci or nothing (and I'm talking about upstream).

And I still don't think I understand what you meant with this:

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #7)
> That explains it. Looking at the EDK II source, the driver for
> virtio-gpu-pci does not expose a linear framebuffer, only virtio-vga does
> (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/
> 952b5cf94c8727b65e04d3d507c0134743be2a66/OvmfPkg/Virtio10Dxe/Virtio10.
> c#L1029). virtio-vga is not available in qemu-system-aarch64 though.

What is it that we're missing?