On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:31 PM Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> said: > > What about the increasing growth in linux-firmware and in particular the > NVIDIA firmware requirements? My reading suggests it's significant and the > future growth also significant. > > Could we use a dumb framebuffer in initrd and get rid of all the GPU > firmware from the image? > The main concern about using efifb during the initrd is handling situations like: - Laptop has the lid closed - External monitor is connected to a HDMI port that is only connected to the discrete GPU or otherwise not lit up by EFI - We need to prompt for the passphrase to unlock the root partition It *mostly* would work fine - and maybe we're OK with that (especially if we can reduce interaction with the initrd). - Owen
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