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Re: [PATCH 2/2] EFI: suppress the "Welcome to GRUB!" message in EFI buil


From: Robbie Harwood
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] EFI: suppress the "Welcome to GRUB!" message in EFI builds
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:01:03 -0500

Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> writes:

> Grub EFI builds are now often used in combination with flicker-free
> boot, but this breaks with upstream grub because the "Welcome to GRUB!"
> message will kick the EFI fb into text mode and show the msg,
> breaking the flicker-free experience.
>
> EFI systems are so fast, that when the menu or the countdown are enabled
> the message will be immediately overwritten, so in these cases not
> printing the message does not matter.
>
> And in case when the timeout_style is set to TIMEOUT_STYLE_HIDDEN,
> the user has asked grub to be quiet (for example to allow flickfree
> boot) annd thus the message should not be printed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>

Be well,
--Robbie

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