diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'master/debian/gfxpayload_keep_default.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | master/debian/gfxpayload_keep_default.patch | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/master/debian/gfxpayload_keep_default.patch b/master/debian/gfxpayload_keep_default.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43cfb6f --- /dev/null +++ b/master/debian/gfxpayload_keep_default.patch @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Description: Disable gfxpayload=keep by default + Setting gfxpayload=keep has been known to cause efifb to be inappropriately + enabled. In any case, with the current Linux kernel the result of this + option is that early kernelspace will be unable to print anything to the + console, so (for example) if boot fails and you end up dumped to an + initramfs prompt, you won't be able to see anything on the screen. As such + it shouldn't be enabled by default in Debian, no matter what kernel options + are enabled. + . + gfxpayload=keep is a good idea but rather ahead of its time ... +Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> +Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/567245 +Forwarded: no +Last-Update: 2010-03-09 + +Index: b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in +=================================================================== +--- a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in ++++ b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in +@@ -77,17 +77,7 @@ + + # Use ELILO's generic "efifb" when it's known to be available. + # FIXME: We need an interface to select vesafb in case efifb can't be used. +- if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" = x ]; then +- cat << EOF +- load_video +-EOF +- if grep -qx "CONFIG_FB_EFI=y" "${config}" 2> /dev/null \ +- && grep -qx "CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y" "${config}" 2> /dev/null; then +- cat << EOF +- set gfxpayload=keep +-EOF +- fi +- else ++ if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" != x ]; then + if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" != xtext ]; then + cat << EOF + load_video |