From: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] EFI: suppress the "Welcome to GRUB!" message in EFI builds
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:01:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jlgv8xzpyxs.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220128103033.74343-3-hdegoede@redhat.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-31 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-28 10:30 [PATCH 0/2] EFI/menu: Do not print messages when autobooting with TIMEOUT_STYLE_HIDDEN Hans de Goede
2022-01-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] normal/menu: Don't show "Booting `%s'" msg when auto-booting " Hans de Goede
2022-01-31 18:00 ` Robbie Harwood
2022-01-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] EFI: suppress the "Welcome to GRUB!" message in EFI builds Hans de Goede
2022-01-31 18:01 ` Robbie Harwood [this message]
2022-03-04 10:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] EFI/menu: Do not print messages when autobooting with TIMEOUT_STYLE_HIDDEN Hans de Goede
2022-03-22 13:46 ` Daniel Kiper
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