I had a patch at some point for the kernel which boiled down to "it's working! keep your hands off it!" and it's fairly simple. But it did require a change.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:55 AM Trammell Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > When I have my coreboot payload Linux kernel setup a console framebuffer > and then kexec into Xen + another kernel, the video glitches out quite > a bit before falling back to text mode. The kexec --reset-vga option > doesn't seem to have any effect. > > I read in the docs that kexec and framebuffers don't get along and > it seems that the patch from 2006 only works with VESA: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/17/58 > > My system is using i915 graphics, and there is no option ROM, so I don't > think it even shows up with any VESA compatible modes. Is there any > way to reset the card or to transfer the mode info to the next kernel? > > -- > Trammell > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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