rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Apr 12 19:43:29 UTC 2011


On 04/12/2011 03:34 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> While I don't care about accelerated X support, this hardware darned
>> well better continue working in an "it works" 2D display mode.  VESA or
>> whatever is fine.
>
> You'll notice I included vesa in the standard list.  Not that vesa works
> very well when EFI is involved, but that's an entirely different kettle
> of excrement.

But in that case (if you haven't picked completely braindead hardware) you
have a working fbcon that we can fall back to.  It'll just be very slow.

-- 
         Peter


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