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From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: efifb not detected on Intel DQ67SW
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:54:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=6jO8VyU-oQga_YovmPRTzN0nT+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikxX577VKmPRVGcp_Chj-udCf-KaQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:21:17PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> Looking at the code, I'm a little confused how it's supposed to work.
>> AFAICT, unless there's a DMI match, then the driver will only load
>> ifthe boot code sets VIDEO_TYPE_EFI, but nothing sets that.
>
> grub should be setting that.

It looks like grub-fedora (the git version, anyway) has a function
set_kernel_params that tries to do this.  Peter, the git tree claims
that you maintain it.  Are there any experiments you'd like me to do?
(Dumping boot_params, perhaps?)

--Andy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 18:21 efifb not detected on Intel DQ67SW Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-25 18:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-05-25 18:54 ` Andrew Lutomirski [this message]
2011-05-26  4:09 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-05-26 13:56 ` Peter Jones
2011-05-26 14:12 ` Andrew Lutomirski

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