Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:47 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Switch to vga console only if framebuffer details are missing |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:29:08 +0100 Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> > > The efi_enabled variable has come to mean "Do we have EFI runtime > services available?". However, lack of EFI runtime services does not > mean that we should switch to using the VGA console. Provided that the > boot loader passed the dimensions of the EFI framebuffer there is no > reason we can't use efifb.
Speed is the obvious one. vga con is fast, efifb is not
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