Disable gfxpayload=keep by default
authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:57 +0000 (12:12 +0000)
committerFelix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
Thu, 3 Jul 2025 16:35:51 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commitefdee391222b45ab98387871e6f932d402a3a2c3
tree4b331aec0e28ca3d53f9cb739c47607cbb56c2c9
parent7a67f2572d04688b39a98ced0f57cc36380de026
Disable gfxpayload=keep by default

Setting gfxpayload=keep has been known to cause efifb to be
inappropriately enabled.  In any case, with the current Linux kernel the
result of this option is that early kernelspace will be unable to print
anything to the console, so (for example) if boot fails and you end up
dumped to an initramfs prompt, you won't be able to see anything on the
screen.  As such it shouldn't be enabled by default in Debian, no matter
what kernel options are enabled.

gfxpayload=keep is a good idea but rather ahead of its time ...

Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/567245
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2013-12-25

Patch-Name: gfxpayload-keep-default.patch

Gbp-Pq: Name gfxpayload-keep-default.patch
util/grub.d/10_linux.in