From: Andrew Hamilton <adhamilt@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com, safinaskar@zohomail.com,
benh@debian.org, bluca@debian.org, kibi@debian.org,
Andrew Hamilton <adhamilt@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] docs: Document new GRUB_FORCE_EFI_ALLVIDEO variable
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 20:47:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251106024756.7050-4-adhamilt@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251106024756.7050-1-adhamilt@gmail.com>
Document the new GRUB_FORCE_EFI_ALLVIDEO variable
used by control whether grub-mkconfig will default
to loading just EFI video modules on EFI platforms
or all_video on EFI platforms.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hamilton <adhamilt@gmail.com>
---
docs/grub.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index 5b23ae47b..669bc2c23 100644
--- a/docs/grub.texi
+++ b/docs/grub.texi
@@ -1642,6 +1642,13 @@ This option is unset by default, and is deprecated in favour of the less
confusing @samp{GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=countdown} or
@samp{GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden}.
+@item GRUB_FORCE_EFI_ALLVIDEO
+When set to true, this will allow grub-mkconfig to generate a GRUB config
+that supports loading the all_video module on the EFI platform instead of
+just the efi_gop and efi_uga modules.
+
+This option is unset by default.
+
@end table
For more detailed customisation of @command{grub-mkconfig}'s output, you may
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-06 2:47 [PATCH 0/3] Update 00_header to load efi video on EFI platforms Andrew Hamilton
2025-11-06 2:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] util/grub.d/00_header.in: Disable loading all_video for EFI Andrew Hamilton
2025-11-06 13:06 ` Daniel Kiper
2025-11-06 2:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] util/grub-mkconfig: Add new environment variable Andrew Hamilton
2025-11-06 2:47 ` Andrew Hamilton [this message]
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