Re: [PATCH v2] x86/video: Only fall back to vga_default_device() without screen info
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jul 07 2026 - 00:19:25 EST
On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 11:02:04PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> 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.
You're "explaining" as if I were someone who actually knows anything about
display gunk. But you need to dumb it down for me so that I can actually
understand why we're fine here and we don't need to fallback to
vga_default_device() here, as the LLM has "inferred".
Thx.
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Boris.
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