On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 13:32 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:10 AM Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Kevin Kofler via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Right now it's not entirely clear whether this is considered part of > > > > the Change scope or not. The paragraph about the `uvesafb` driver seems > > > > kind of aspirational and doesn't seem to commit to anything. The > > > > "Benefit to Fedora" section states "Verified modern supported paths for > > > > cases currently handled by vesa/fbdev", but I'm not 100% clear what is > > > > meant by that. > > > > > > IMHO, it is not acceptable to remove the vesa driver without having > > > something like uvesafb to replace it. > > > > I like how I'm being told _not_ to find out where the remaining bugs > > are in our native drivers, and instead preserve something awful for > > eternity. > > Turns out the support story is less bad than I thought, the simpledrm > change was more powerful than I knew. I've updated the change again > but the short story is vga= on kcmdline will give you just as good of > support as UEFI framebuffer.
If we can do the "make basic graphics mode do vga=ask and then write the chosen config to the installed system bootloader" thing, then that sounds sufficient to me. That will require co-ordination with the anaconda team, though (and I think with bcl to get the necessary changes into the image bootloader configurations). Thanks for looking into it! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
