Adjusting basic video driver testcase for UEFI systems

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 21:41:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 05:56 -0400, Jan Sedlak wrote:
> So if I understand it correctly, appending "nomodeset" on BIOS system should lead to usage of VESA driver

On *most* BIOS systems. This will not be the case if the driver for your
'hardware' actually happens to work without kernel modesetting; very
rare for real hardware, less rare for virt.

>  and appending "nomodeset" on UEFI system should lead to usage of GOP via efifb driver, so this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984455 is incorrect behaviour.

That would be my understanding, yeah, but maybe we're missing
something...
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