From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MaUWe-0007G7-2t for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:02:56 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaUWb-0007FP-VK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:02:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaUWX-0007BJ-Ah for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:02:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37200 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaUWX-0007B5-6G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:02:49 -0400 Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.141]:40618) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaUWW-000540-LH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:02:48 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MaUWX-00084g-HW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:02:49 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1MaUWV-0003LS-00; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:02:47 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:02:46 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090810130246.GW11691@riva.ucam.org> References: <20090810110102.GP11691@riva.ucam.org> <20090810122141.GV11691@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve handling of "keep" in gfxpayload 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: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:02:54 -0000 On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:38:42PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, it completely skips modesetting. > > > >> What if the same mode is passed as a value? Does linux redoes the > >> modesetting? > > > > Yes, which permits it to display text since now it's set up a linear > > framebuffer. > > Why can't linux use linear framebuffer for its framebuffer console? It's probably easiest if you just catch up on the thread on the Ubuntu kernel list that I referenced earlier, where this is covered. Matthew Garrett's pretty authoritative on this. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2009-August/006773.html Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]