Hi, On 9/14/25 9:40 PM, chalian...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Chali Anis <chalian...@gmail.com> > > remove the framebuffer console and let develpers select it when needed, this > fixes the problem that consist of having the screen splited to top and bottom > displaying the output twice, and considerably speedup the efi payload on x86. > > Fixes: 67498b411276 ("x86: configs: efi: enable some more useful options") > Signed-off-by: Chali Anis <chalian...@gmail.com>
In the worst case, the EFI stdio goes only to serial and users end up seeing nothing on the screen at all with this configuration. I thus don't think it's a good idea to disable it by default, unless we have a way to check if stdio and GOP go to the same screen or not. Cheers, Ahmad > --- > arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig > index 1dd823af40ea..9844a70d2628 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig > +++ b/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig > @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ CONFIG_DRIVER_NET_EFI_SNP=y > CONFIG_DISK=y > CONFIG_DISK_WRITE=y > CONFIG_VIDEO=y > -CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_DRIVER_VIDEO_EFI_GOP=y > CONFIG_FINTEK_SUPERIO=y > CONFIG_SMSC_SUPERIO=y -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |