On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:38:42PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, it completely skips modesetting. > > > >> What if the same mode is passed as a value? Does linux redoes the > >> modesetting? > > > > Yes, which permits it to display text since now it's set up a linear > > framebuffer. > > Why can't linux use linear framebuffer for its framebuffer console?
It's probably easiest if you just catch up on the thread on the Ubuntu kernel list that I referenced earlier, where this is covered. Matthew Garrett's pretty authoritative on this. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2009-August/006773.html Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
