linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] bootsplash: Flush framebuffer after drawing

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Message-ID: <84bf675c-5415-00a3-d4b4-0ff2b14f0c2a@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:26:26 +0100
From:   Max Staudt <mstaudt@...e.de>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        michal@...kovi.net, sndirsch@...e.com,
        Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bero Rosenkränzer 
        <bernhard.rosenkranzer@...aro.org>, philm@...jaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] bootsplash: Flush framebuffer after drawing

On 12/19/2017 05:09 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> btw the reason drmcon didn't move is that David Herrmann moved on from
> hacking on graphics stuff, and no one needs it. There's nothing
> fundamentally wrong with his patches for a basic emergency console on
> plain drm, or the simpledrm driver to get a basic drm framebuffer up
> on vesafb/efifb and friends. Just wanted to bring this in since you
> sound like you're expecting this to magically have happened somehow.
> We don't merge code without real use-cases.

Don't worry, I'm not expecting this to have magically happened. It will happen when it will happen, or maybe never.

I'm just working with that I've got right now, and once a successor to fbcon takes it's throne, I'm very happy to help move the bootsplash over.



Max