Re: [PATCH] x86: Switch to vga console only if framebuffer detailsare missing

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:29:08 +0100
Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The efi_enabled variable has come to mean "Do we have EFI runtime
> services available?". However, lack of EFI runtime services does not
> mean that we should switch to using the VGA console. Provided that the
> boot loader passed the dimensions of the EFI framebuffer there is no
> reason we can't use efifb.

Speed is the obvious one. vga con is fast, efifb is not
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