On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Colin Watson<cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:27:04PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Framebuffer console works just fine with no KMS if video mode is >> already set and video parameters passed. At least technically. > > Feel free to show me what I'm doing wrong, but it demonstrably does not > work right now and right here, and Matthew Garrett (whose opinion I > value very highly when it comes to kernelspace) says that the code > necessary to make this work does not exist in Linux right now. >
AFAIK efifb does exactly that. Try adding efifb keyword to linux command line. >> Just that you won't be able to do fancy stuff like acceleration before >> you load complete drivers. An example of OS which boots in such mode >> is OSX - it continues in the mode set by booter and uses the video for >> showing either scroll wheel or text. > > That means it's theoretically possible, certainly, but that wasn't my > point - the fact is that it doesn't work with Linux today, and whether > OS X can do it is not really directly relevant to that. > > Regards, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
