[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2 6/8] add GOP mode setting and splash drawing support

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Joonas Lahtinen
> <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Add support for two new configuration directives gfxmode and splash
>> which respectively allow setting the screen graphics mode and drawing
>> splash image during gummiboot execution. See README.gop for more
>> details.
>
>> +       gfxmode 1920x1080
>
> What the reason for that? It looks wrong to require the resolution to
> be specified, we need to be able to move disks around between systes
> and there are also still systems with external monitors. :)
>
> Almost all hardware sets up the native resolution and we should just
> query that instead of writing it to disk. What's different on the
> machines you work with?

I've implemented very basic BMP support and commited it.

There is currently no support for modelines, and unless there is a
good reason, we should not do that. The firmware is expected to init
the native resolution which we should not touch.

Kay