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From 2645e0aa9c17c2c966a0533e52ad00510311483e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:04:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH xf86-video-vesa] Refuse to run on UEFI machines

No possible good can come of this.

v2: Check for .../efi-framebuffer.0 ("is there an EFI framebuffer")
instead of /sys/firmware/efi ("is this an EFI machine"). Suggested by
Peter Jones.

Reviewed-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>

diff --git a/src/vesa.c b/src/vesa.c
index 9b65b9b..af750e2 100644
--- a/src/vesa.c
+++ b/src/vesa.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include <string.h>
-
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include "vesa.h"
 
 /* All drivers initialising the SW cursor need this */
@@ -450,7 +450,14 @@ VESAPciProbe(DriverPtr drv, int entity_num, struct pci_device *dev,
 	     intptr_t match_data)
 {
     ScrnInfoPtr pScrn;
-    
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+    if (access("/sys/devices/platform/efi-framebuffer.0", F_OK) == 0) {
+        ErrorF("vesa: Refusing to run on UEFI\n");
+        return FALSE;
+    }
+#endif
+
     pScrn = xf86ConfigPciEntity(NULL, 0, entity_num, NULL, 
 				NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
     if (pScrn != NULL) {
-- 
2.17.1