Re: [PATCH] Improve handling of "keep" in gfxpayload

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:01:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> If the user set "keep" in gfxpayload, as I understand it, that indicates
> that they want the graphical mode set by GRUB to persist through to the
> kernel. In order for this to actually work with Linux, we need to set up
> the vid_mode boot parameter to indicate that it should keep the current
> video mode, otherwise it'll just reset the mode to text at boot and
> nothing much is gained. This patch fixes that.

Nice catch, I wasn't aware an extra flag was needed.

> Note that I'm explicitly not enabling GRUB_ASSUME_LINUX_HAS_FB_SUPPORT
> in the Ubuntu grub2 package.

Actually, the Debian package stopped enabling it too.  I had my reservations
when "keep" was introduced, but now I see that Vladimir's idea is a much
better option than hardcoding in the binary.

I think I'll remove GRUB_ASSUME_LINUX_HAS_FB_SUPPORT.  It seems that nobody
is going to use it, so all it does is add complexity.  This will also make
your patch simpler.

Is there any objection to that?

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Robert Millan

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