On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 14:45 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I mean, the modern systems that *need* GPU firmware generally seem to
> do pretty well with using native resolution and don't perform too
> badly, especially in the simple installer UI. When I test the fallback
> path on my bare metal test box on UEFI it uses the monitor's native
> resolution and performs fine (even, honestly, in GNOME), and that
> motherboard is nearly a decade old even. Don't know if this is the same
> for everyone, of course.
For what it's worth, this is back on the change list for Fedora 37.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization
I hope they've co-ordinated with Peter this time, it seems kinda rude
to keep pushing this without involving the package maintainer who's
already done quite a lot of work on splitting things up and so on.
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