On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/26/2011 12:09 AM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >> 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. > > That's expected, though I admit it's not the best thing ever. We're currently > working on not needing that bootloader at all any more, in favor of grub2, > which doesn't have this limitation. > >> FWIW, efifb seems really slow. > > It's a non-accelerated console. Of course it's slow. Yes, but it's really really amazingly slow. It's so slow that merely enabling it doubles the time it takes to get i915 loaded. A one-liner to fix it is coming right now... --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
