Sound's like solid idea. A lot of systems out there lack propper ACPI description for VGA and it would definitly make the installation on such a system much more easy.
As far as I can tell it doesn't seam to break other things and even low power system without VGA (like a pcengines apu2) don't seam to suffer. On 17.03.19 13:00, freebsd-stable-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 02:59:12 +0700 > From: Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.net> > To: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Subject: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media > Message-ID: <912fc95d-5a5e-012b-7385-0f43f50dc...@grosbein.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r > > Hi! > > Since 11.2-RELESE, default console driver vt(4) checks ACPI table for > presence of VGA in the system. > It does not initialize console (no input, no output) if ACPI states there is > no VGA adapter. > > There are PRs describing many cases when VGA is present but ACPI lies > and we have a regression compared with 11.1 and earlier: > FreeBSD cannot be installed interactively onto such a system, leaving aside > serial console. > > vt(4) has loader knob to restore pre-11.2 behaviour and ignore ACPI: > > hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 > > Should we add this unconditionally to the installation media designed for > interactive VGA-based installation? > > > ------------------------------ >
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