Re: [PATCH 0/1] script/runqemu: change boot command line for qemuppc

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:33 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 11-08-24 04:48 AM, Liming Wang wrote:
> > This patch is just a workaround to speed up boot time of qemuppc, because
> > qemuppc has no framebuffer support, no need to start X server for qemuppc.
> >
> > Richard suggested to fix the X scripts so that if an fbdev X server is in use and
> > the framebuffer device node does not exist, it just exits cleanly with a
> > suitable message and doesn't timeout on boot.
> >
> > But I think it needs more time to implement and test.
> >> X scripts serve for all the boards. And we also can't assume all the
> >> boards use the same
> >> framebuffer device. So how to detect whether the framebuffer device
> >> exists is board dependent.
> >> Maybe we can see whether the device /dev/fb0 exists(it could be created
> >> manually, so we should try to open it to verify)
> >> or the file /proc/fb exists to confirm the framebuffer device. Anyway,
> >> any modification should be
> >> tested on all boards to see whether it works. I prefer to mark it as
> >> todo task in 1.1
> 
> We need to cc Richard/Saul on this, so they can re-consider
> and merge this as appropriate. But for me, I'm acking this
> change.

I've reluctantly merged this but I consider this a bit of a cop-out :(

Cheers,

Richard