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From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:54:16 +0000
Subject: Re: efifb not detected on Intel DQ67SW
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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