From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Switch to vga console only if framebuffer details are missing
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917120047.42b520ac@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347877748-11766-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:29:08 +0100
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
>
> The efi_enabled variable has come to mean "Do we have EFI runtime
> services available?". However, lack of EFI runtime services does not
> mean that we should switch to using the VGA console. Provided that the
> boot loader passed the dimensions of the EFI framebuffer there is no
> reason we can't use efifb.
Speed is the obvious one. vga con is fast, efifb is not
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 10:29 Matt Fleming
2012-09-17 11:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-09-17 11:03 ` Matt Fleming
2012-10-10 13:43 ` Matt Fleming
2012-10-10 14:32 ` Peter Jones
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120917120047.42b520ac@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-efi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=matt.fleming@intel.com \
--cc=matt@console-pimps.org \
--cc=mingo@kernel.org \
--cc=mjg@redhat.com \
--cc=olof@lixom.net \
--cc=pjones@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®