On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:31 PM Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com said:
What about the increasing growth in linux-firmware and in particular the
NVIDIA firmware requirements? My reading suggests it's significant and the future growth also significant.
Could we use a dumb framebuffer in initrd and get rid of all the GPU firmware from the image?
The main concern about using efifb during the initrd is handling situations like:
- Laptop has the lid closed - External monitor is connected to a HDMI port that is only connected to the discrete GPU or otherwise not lit up by EFI - We need to prompt for the passphrase to unlock the root partition
It *mostly* would work fine - and maybe we're OK with that (especially if we can reduce interaction with the initrd).
- Owen