On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Paul Menzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear coreboot folks, > > > following up on [1], could you please test latest Linux kernels (3.12, > 3.13, 3.14, 3.15) on Intel based laptops and check if the Intel driver > is able to initialize the IGD [2] without a Video BIOS or coreboot’s > native graphics init? If you know if that was ever possible, for example > with Linux 3.2, that’d be also interesting.
Intel made a change to their driver to rely on the VBT for initializing the graphics device. The VBT is usually carried in the Video BIOS so that's where that dependency comes in. -Aaron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
