Bug#1010346: linux-image-cloud-amd64: Enable CONFIG_FB_EFI=y in Buster Cloud Kernel

From	Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1010346: linux-image-cloud-amd64: Enable CONFIG_FB_EFI=y in Buster Cloud Kernel
Date	2022-04-29 14:10 +0200
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Hi Vasudev

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 03:27:26PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Booting a KVM based VM with UEFI enabled using Buster image with cloud kernel will have
> a non working VNC console. Console seems to be frozen on debugging we figured out that 
> its because buster cloud kernel does not have CONFIG_FB_EFI enabled.

The cloud kernel is marked for specific environments only.  All of them
use the serial console first.

> This issue is not present in Bullseye kernel as it was enabled in following commit [1].
> Can we also enable same option for Buster cloud kernel?. Else for using VNC like console
> VM image needs to be running regular kernel (linux-image-amd64).

Buster is in maintenance mode.  So, why?

Bastian

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Bug#1010346: linux-image-cloud-amd64: Enable CONFIG_FB_EFI=y in Buster Cloud Kernel Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org> - 2022-04-29 12:10 +0200
  Bug#1010346: linux-image-cloud-amd64: Enable CONFIG_FB_EFI=y in Buster Cloud Kernel Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2022-04-29 14:10 +0200

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