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Remove options VESA from x86 GENERIC

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Remove options VESA from x86 GENERIC

options VESA / vesa.ko provides VESA Bios Extensions (VBE) support for
the legacy sc(4) console. It is not used by the default console, vt(4).

There is a report[1] of an incompatibility between VESA and the Nvidia
driver breaking suspend/resume. Since VESA is not used by the default
configuration anyway, just remove options VESA from GENERIC. The kernel
module is still available and may be loaded by sc(4) users who want to
select a VBE mode.

(Note that vt(4) does not support selecting a VBE mode. The loader can
set a VBE mode and vt(4) will use it via the vt_vbefb driver.)

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000469.html

PR: 253733
Reported by: Stefan Blachmann [1]
Reviewed by: imp, manu, tsoome
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33141

Details

Provenance
emasteAuthored on Nov 27 2021, 8:27 PM
Reviewer
imp
Differential Revision
D33141: Remove options VESA from x86 GENERIC
Parents
rG4f924a786ae0: linker_kldload_busy(): allow recursion
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