Re: [PATCH v2] x86/video: Only fall back to vga_default_device() without screen info

From: Mario Limonciello

Date: Tue Jul 07 2026 - 00:02:18 EST




On 7/6/26 10:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 12:47:39PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
Boris or Bjron,

Can you pick this up for fixes? Here is the lore link.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260623141505.1816786-1-mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx/

Sashiko has a question and now that I read it, I wanna know too:

https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260623141505.1816786-1-mario.limonciello%40amd.com

:-)
Those systems use the existing boot_vga sysfs file (which is unchanged).

Userspace recognizes both boot_vga for those systems and boot_display for modern systems depending upon the use.