From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1M0DY5-0001ps-4p for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:29 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0DXy-0001ok-KE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0DXs-0001nh-2U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52465 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0DXr-0001nX-Db for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:15 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:58888) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0DXr-0007ot-1D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M0DKa-0001bQ-NV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 13:24:33 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M0DXn-0007Oj-Re for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 13:38:11 +0200 Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 13:38:11 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090502113811.GB28362@thorin> References: <1239032043.8986.27.camel@mj> <20090413141657.GE12170@thorin> <20090413144558.GA22165@thorin> <1239637296.3549.9.camel@mj> <20090413190546.GB24072@thorin> <1239664820.13208.50.camel@mj> <49E3D2A6.3080503@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49E3D2A6.3080503@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 11:38:23 -0000 On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:02:46AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > With proposed autodetections bootloader becomes overzealous. I think it > should be configirable but in a more modern way. I think gfxpayload with > the same syntax as gfxmode plus additional platform-specific keywords > like text80x25 and text80x50 should be fine. Sounds nice. Will you implement this? > If to gfxpayload variable > set, then use current mode. I think based on what Pavel said, and on what you say below, that using current mode should be avoided in official GRUB, because of the need to support a wide variety of build configurations. If gfxpayload is unset I would just reset it. Someone who's also distributing builds of Linux and has intimate knowledge about their setup, can also make similar decisions when it comes to setting up GRUB build options. > I object against a solution of just using current mode because of the > current state on EFI: code to retrieve framebuffer address isn't yet > used for gfxterm. Can this be fixed? > vga= option could be deleted altogether and replaced by warning if > someone passes it. A warning is fine, but please keep the vga=. It's useful to provide backward compatibility, even if it's a deprecated interface. (Though, since it's backward compatibility, I would only provide it on BIOS platforms) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."