Andrew Hamilton <[email protected]>:
> This is a new attempt to fix the issue with video corruption that can
> occur in some cases on EFI when all_video is loaded. Previously, the

Thank you for the patch!

It indeed solved my immidiate problem.

But I still believe that ideally we should do some more fundamental fix.

Ideally whatever Gerd Hoffmann proposed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/3boqeafidphhrxmbzc7ojp6a4ezwdcoxphjcwpaa2jlhgdpwkz@he4xf627vqik/
> Alternatively you can check for conflicts.  Check which physical device
> backs efi_gop, block that from being used by grub drivers.  Same for
> all other device types.

> The latter would handle the corner case that there is hardware which is
> (a) supported by grub, and (b) not supported by the firmware, and (c)
> essential to boot the system.  Not sure how relevant that is in
> practice, most EFI firmware I've seen recently is pretty complete when
> it comes to hardware support.  NIC drivers are missing sometimes, iPXE
> to the rescue ;)

So I will keep https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?66200 opened.

Please, CC me when answering, I'm not subscribed.

-- 
Askar Safin

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