Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:55:54 +0100 From: Leon Christopher Dietrich <doralitze@chaotikum.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media Message-ID: <ccfb7722-3703-2995-641d-256990a1c57d@chaotikum.org> In-Reply-To: <mailman.13.1552824000.329.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.13.1552824000.329.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --dYFVrKIm1ML27l0odzmz5toF01vcN9PtV Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="hxwAqwS7SRTx0VeRq06LOigSYcyON2e1W"; protected-headers="v1" From: Leon Christopher Dietrich <doralitze@chaotikum.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <ccfb7722-3703-2995-641d-256990a1c57d@chaotikum.org> Subject: Re: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1 for installation media References: <mailman.13.1552824000.329.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <mailman.13.1552824000.329.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> --hxwAqwS7SRTx0VeRq06LOigSYcyON2e1W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en-US Sound's like solid idea. A lot of systems out there lack propper ACPI description for VGA and it would definitly make the installation on such a system much more easy. As far as I can tell it doesn't seam to break other things and even low power system without VGA (like a pcengines apu2) don't seam to suffer. On 17.03.19 13:00, FreeBSD-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 02:59:12 +0700 > From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> > To: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Subject: hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=3D1 for installation media > Message-ID: <912fc95d-5a5e-012b-7385-0f43f50dca65@grosbein.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dkoi8-r > > Hi! > > Since 11.2-RELESE, default console driver vt(4) checks ACPI table for p= resence of VGA in the system. > It does not initialize console (no input, no output) if ACPI states the= re is no VGA adapter. > > There are PRs describing many cases when VGA is present but ACPI lies > and we have a regression compared with 11.1 and earlier: > FreeBSD cannot be installed interactively onto such a system, leaving a= side serial console. > > vt(4) has loader knob to restore pre-11.2 behaviour and ignore ACPI: > > hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=3D1 > > Should we add this unconditionally to the installation media designed f= or interactive VGA-based installation? > > > ------------------------------ > --hxwAqwS7SRTx0VeRq06LOigSYcyON2e1W-- --dYFVrKIm1ML27l0odzmz5toF01vcN9PtV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQRB40AUGVuyGH/JYL3eovV9SB909QUCXI5D3gAKCRDeovV9SB90 9bICAQCPpL1lqiLvy1PWE9zD6J5/mI7EULEMxbQF9f1ID2K1PgEAzVs5wKXrC377 iCiwpv/6NQO1JAflS/m99bqOa5PD9g4= =RQrp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dYFVrKIm1ML27l0odzmz5toF01vcN9PtV--
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