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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:47 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Switch to vga console only if framebuffer details
 are missing
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:29:08 +0100
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> wrote:

> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> 
> 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