Hi,

A while ago I did a blogpost about not having the native GPU drivers in
the initrd: https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28291.html

With the Fedora /boot partition size increase there has been renewed
interest in this and as a result I got an interesting comment on
the blog post pointing out that there are EFI protocols to get EDID
info for the monitor (presumably for the one the GOP has lit up).

It would be useful to see if we can hook this up so that the simpledrm
device can report the physical dimensions of the screen and the boot
splash does not need to guess the DPI and thus does not need to guess
whether to do hiDPI scaling or not. The comment is here:

https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28291.html?thread=14467#cmt14467

and it points to:

https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/2_-_AMD_UEFI_Plugfest_EDID_Spring2012.pdf
https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Support.html

Unfortunately I do not have time to work on this myself, hence this
email in the hope that someone else can pick this idea up.

Regards,

Hans



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