From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N7YRH-0000cQ-PZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:54:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7YRF-0000b9-Co for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:54:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7YRA-0000Vp-Dq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:54:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52751 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7YRA-0000Uj-4c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:53:56 -0500 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:53194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7YR8-0002AV-K1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:53:54 -0500 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1N7YR6-0006jo-U9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:53:53 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1N7YR4-0008IV-00; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:53:50 +0000 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:53:50 +0000 From: Colin Watson To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091109175349.GH28534@riva.ucam.org> References: <20090810110102.GP11691@riva.ucam.org> <20091109171841.GA6868@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091109171841.GA6868@thorin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost01-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 GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:54:01 -0000 On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:18:41PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > We don't have GRUB_ASSUME_LINUX_HAS_FB_SUPPORT anymore. Does this > patch still make sense? (or some part of it? I suspect > GRUB_LINUX_VID_MODE_CURRENT is still useful). Given the kernel issues with it, I've withdrawn this patch for the time being. There may be cunning things we can do in future on systems that support kernel modesetting, but it's not worth it right now. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]