Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

[Isaac Dupree]

Bean wrote:
> I'm using the 2.6.25 kernel from debian sid, it works fine. I think
> ubuntu can use debian packages as well. To solve the screen problem,
> you need the following command line:
>
> video=efifb agp=off
>
> If you're interested, you can also try amd64 kernel. You can use it on
> 686 linux directly, no need to install a full amd64 system.

every time I've tried Ubuntu with a different kernel... it has problems. 
 Ubuntu has a fancy initrd, modules, lots of patches, Upstart as init, 
and who knows what assumptions about the boot process... but maybe.  I 
could use the kernel from the Ubuntu development branch, if I had any 
idea how to use APT to upgrade just a few specific things from an 
unstable package-source and not my whole system (the kernel binary 
obviously doesn't depend on system libraries, so it should be uniquely 
easy to do this...).  Do you know about debians -- if that's possible?

-Isaac