[PATCH] xfree86: Prefer fbdev to vesa

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Fri Nov 15 12:40:18 PST 2013


Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:

> On UEFI machines you'd prefer fbdev to grab efifb instead of vesa trying
> to initialize and failing in a way we can't unwind from.  On BIOS
> machines this is harmless: either there is an fbdev driver and it'll
> probably be more capable, or there's not and vesa will kick in anyway.

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
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