vt console driver and default vga mode: breaking POLA

[Eugene Grosbein]

09.09.2016 20:59, Jan Bramkamp пишет:

>> I apologise for being late on this, but I just noticed. The new vt console driver has a very important
>> change in behavior, replacing the ancient “BIOS” text mode with a graphic VGA mode.
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>> I don’t know how many people relies on BIOS serial redirection for consoles, but at least
>> HP’s iLO system offers the possibility of accessing the console through a ssh connection instead
>> of requiring a bloated Java console, and it’s a very convenient feature. But it only works in pure
>> “BIOS text mode” (the old sc console driver used this mode as a default).
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>> I would rather change the default behavior of vt to hw.vga.textmode=1 so that its behavior mimics
>> the old sc driver.
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>> I know the current fad is to hide boot messages with panda bears and beautiful butterflies revolving
>> around them, but boot messages are critical when diagnosing problems.
>>
>> I should have chimed in earlier, I know. But anyway it’s a very minor change.
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>> What do you think?

+1

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> The presence of a ipmi* device could be a good heuristic to select the default mode.

"ipmi* device" needs ipmi(4) driver in the GENERIC.
And think of NVIDIA users without ipmi hardware...

Loader menu option would be fine.