From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:30:33 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] EFI: suppress the "Welcome to GRUB!" message in EFI builds

Grub EFI builds are now often used in combination with flicker-free

boot, but this breaks with upstream grub because the "Welcome to GRUB!"

message will kick the EFI fb into text mode and show the msg,

breaking the flicker-free experience.

EFI systems are so fast, that when the menu or the countdown are enabled

the message will be immediately overwritten, so in these cases not

printing the message does not matter.

And in case when the timeout_style is set to TIMEOUT_STYLE_HIDDEN,

the user has asked grub to be quiet (for example to allow flickfree

boot) annd thus the message should not be printed.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

---

 grub-core/kern/main.c | 3 +++

 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/main.c b/grub-core/kern/main.c

index 3fc3401472..993b8a8598 100644

--- a/grub-core/kern/main.c

+++ b/grub-core/kern/main.c

@@ -317,10 +317,13 @@ grub_main (void)

   grub_boot_time ("After machine init.");

+  /* This breaks flicker-free boot on EFI systems, so disable it there. */

+#ifndef GRUB_MACHINE_EFI

   /* Hello.  */

   grub_setcolorstate (GRUB_TERM_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT);

   grub_printf ("Welcome to GRUB!\n\n");

   grub_setcolorstate (GRUB_TERM_COLOR_STANDARD);

+#endif

   /* Init verifiers API. */

   grub_verifiers_init ();