Comment # 28 on bug 1219180 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Dario Faggioli from comment #27)
> (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).

There's also ramfb, but that's not really usable in practice.

> 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?

I guess either virtio-vga support for aarch64 or somehow support for a linear
framebuffer with virtio-gpu-pci.