[OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 06:33:37PM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> oh, well, in that case, the issue is not about OI not working in
> UEFI mode (because it does), but the issue is that Xorg can not use
> vesa driver when there is no vesa bios (which is perfectly good
> reason). Also, having to run OI in BIOS mode because you need to run
> Xorg, is also good reason, but you can not tell that OI does not
> work with UEFI, because that is not true:)

Well, that was my first impression.  I agree now that OI itself is
not at fault.

> Of course the root cause is about missing DRM driver and thats the
> reason why you need to use vesa in first place….

Also correct.  I believe that Aurélien is working on the DRM driver.
I will be happier when that is ported and working.


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