linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Platform Framebuffers and SimpleDRM

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:28:36 +0200
From:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Platform Framebuffers and SimpleDRM

Hi

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 06:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> This series changes the way we handle firmware framebuffers on x86 systems. On
>> other architectures the recently introduced "simple-framebuffer"
>> platform-devices provide a sane and proper way to handle firmware framebuffers.
>> So why not use it on x86, too?
>
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
>
> (This time I didn't see any issue with the FB content being blank; I
> must have forgotten a console= command-line parameter or something the
> last time around)

I think I had some error in the pseudo_palette handling (which I now
copied from simplefb.c), but I am not sure why it didn't work in v1.
Thanks a lot for testing!

Regards
David
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