Hello Mikhail, GRUB 2.16 will drop the UGA Draw protocol upstream as well.
Best regards, Mate Kukri On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 6:01 AM Mikhail Ryazanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: grub-efi-amd64-bin > Version: 2.14-3 > > According to the Changelog, the efi_uga.mod module has been removed in > 2.14-2: > "* efi: Drop support for UGA Draw and Console Control protocols (Closes: > #1127371) (Closes: #1127556)". > However, #1127371 was complaining only about riscv64 and loong64, not > amd64 (and #1127556 looks really unrelated). > > The problem with this decision is that it completely broke GRUB menu on > at least some Intel MacBooks, as they do not support EFI GOP. Namely, > the screen remains completely blank until the kernel boots (if it does, > otherwise the user is left completely blind as what to do). > > UGA is still supported by the upsteam, so even if there is some real > reason to exclude it from the default grub.cfg on amd64, please at least > provide efi_uga.mod in x86_64-efi, so that affected users can insmod it > manually. > > I cannot really test the version 2.14-1 (just before this change), since > it is not available from packages.debian.org and Debian FTPs, but I did > test 2.12-9+deb13u2, and it works fine. > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel
