On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 20:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have
documented
> cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual
> bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream?
> What kind of info should be included? Thanks!
What's not good enough about using [the equivalent of] vesafb,
so as to to avoid problems with mode-setting? Or, use vesafb
unless the PCI vendor:device:version is on a known-good list?
Only all the things wrong with VBE, which I don't especially feel like
repeating yet again.
Graphical bootloader is not my favorite idea.
- ajax