Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: efi_defconfig: remove framebuffer console to fix duplicate screen.

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On 9/14/25 9:40 PM, chalianis1@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Chali Anis <chalianis1@gmail.com>
> 
> remove the framebuffer console and let develpers select it when needed, this
> fixes the problem that consist of having the screen splited to top and bottom
> displaying the output twice, and considerably speedup the efi payload on x86.
> 
> Fixes: 67498b411276 ("x86: configs: efi: enable some more useful options")
> Signed-off-by: Chali Anis <chalianis1@gmail.com>

In the worst case, the EFI stdio goes only to serial and users end up
seeing nothing on the screen at all with this configuration.

I thus don't think it's a good idea to disable it by default, unless we
have a way to check if stdio and GOP go to the same screen or not.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> ---
>  arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig
> index 1dd823af40ea..9844a70d2628 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/configs/efi_defconfig
> @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ CONFIG_DRIVER_NET_EFI_SNP=y
>  CONFIG_DISK=y
>  CONFIG_DISK_WRITE=y
>  CONFIG_VIDEO=y
> -CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
>  CONFIG_DRIVER_VIDEO_EFI_GOP=y
>  CONFIG_FINTEK_SUPERIO=y
>  CONFIG_SMSC_SUPERIO=y

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