On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:21:17PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >> >>> Looking at the code, I'm a little confused how it's supposed to work. >>> AFAICT, unless there's a DMI match, then the driver will only load >>> ifthe boot code sets VIDEO_TYPE_EFI, but nothing sets that. >> >> grub should be setting that. > > It looks like grub-fedora (the git version, anyway) has a function > set_kernel_params that tries to do this. Peter, the git tree claims > that you maintain it. Are there any experiments you'd like me to do? > (Dumping boot_params, perhaps?) It's a bug in grub. If I have a splashimage then efifb works. If I don't, then efifb doesn't. If I don't hear anything back soon, I'll file a bug against Fedora. FWIW, efifb seems really slow. --Andy > > --Andy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
