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Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:41:31 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:31:53AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > -- I tried passing video=intelfb to linux; it worked under grub2-pc but
> > didn't improve anything under efi.
> 
> intelfb doesn't work. The only way to see console in efi is to use
> video=vesafb or video=efifb.

How come?  I thought intelfb used the bare hardware.

> grub2 will detect these options and setup
> frame buffer for you.

Can you be more specific?  I thought grub was completely agnostic about Linux
parameters.

-- 
Robert Millan

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