[Bug 2104014] Re: CONFIG_FB_EFI needed in initramfs for linuxboot based systems

2025-03-25 Thread You-Sheng Yang
Hi Thierry, I believe bug 1965303 has provided the reason Ubuntu deprecated fbdev, and there is also a url to Fedora's kernel commit that did the same thing. The Ubuntu generic kernels want to serve as much users as possible, however that certainly doesn't and cannot mean all. Anyone may have som

[Bug 2104014] Re: CONFIG_FB_EFI needed in initramfs for linuxboot based systems

2025-03-24 Thread tlaurion
Why would Ubuntu decide to differ from other linux distro into not providing efifb into initramfs please? I cannot convince all linux distros specifically into following deprecation plan of fbdev. What is supposed to be in initramfs prior of LUKS unlock by systemd, so that passphrase prompt is pos

[Bug 2104014] Re: CONFIG_FB_EFI needed in initramfs for linuxboot based systems

2025-03-24 Thread You-Sheng Yang
Linuxboot is an amazing project but I don't think that makes a strong reason to go backward. Is it possible to have drm/fb implemented/enabled in linuxboot as well? Or you may want to modify debian.master/config/annotations file in the Ubuntu kernel source tree, rebuilt the kernel and create a quic