Time to move the GPU drivers out of the initrd and rely on EFI framebuffer in the initrd

Posted Oct 9, 2025 18:10 UTC (Thu) by shalem (subscriber, #4062)
Parent article: Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43

I believe that the time really has come to move the GPU drivers out of the initrd and rely on EFI framebuffer in the initrd.

There are some downsides to it, but I believe we have reached a point where the upsides easily outway the downsides, see my blog post from 2 years ago for a detailed listing of pros and cons: https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28291.html