vesa_drv compatibility question

[soul]

Hello Adam,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/12 5:38 AM, soul wrote:
>
>> "
>> SUPPORTED HARDWARE
>>         The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards.   There
>> are
>>         some known exceptions, and those should be listed here.
>> "
>>
>> Is there a list of such "known exceptions"? That is, VESA-compatible
>> cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this
>> driver?
>
>
> I don't know of such a list.  Possibly one existed when that man page was
> written.
>
>
>> Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops
>> (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT
>> VESA-compatible?
>
>
> Right now, the odds of that are close to zero.
>
> In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much
> closer to one.  The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver
> will no longer work.
>
> Why do you ask?

Thank you for your answer: this is perfectly fine for me.

I ask because I am doing a custom LiveCD with a software demo, which
as part of the show, should also work on a machine I will not have
access to until the actual event.
By targeting VESA I am hoping to therefore reduce the risk of an
unpleasant surprise at runtime.

This UEFI transition seems bad news.. I guess it will be more
difficult for these use cases in the future.

Thanks,

C.