From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:53:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] bootsplash: Flush framebuffer after drawing Message-Id: <20171231125326.6e4d912b@alans-desktop> List-Id: References: <20171213194755.3409-1-mstaudt@suse.de> <20171213194755.3409-4-mstaudt@suse.de> <20171213213506.GD26573@phenom.ffwll.local> <20171219122313.GE26573@phenom.ffwll.local> <8bbb0497-4a10-2f81-0040-6e7cd4e7353c@suse.de> <20171219135715.GG26573@phenom.ffwll.local> <1513692473.14829.14.camel@suse.com> In-Reply-To: <1513692473.14829.14.camel@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Oliver Neukum Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, michal@markovi.net, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, Stefan Dirsch , Takashi Iwai , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Max Staudt , bernhard.rosenkranzer@linaro.org, philm@manjaro.org On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:07:53 +0100 Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 19.12.2017, 14:57 +0100 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > > > Would you like me to extend the FB API or not? > > > > Yes. Well for real I'd like you to do kms, so maybe you need to explain > > why exactly you absolutely have to use fbdev (aka which driver isn't > > supported by drm that you want to enable this on). > > Hi, > > those would be at a minimum efifb, vesafb, xenfb > Those are obviously not sexy, but from a practical point of view > they are the minimum you need to support. I think it's more constructive to look at it the other way around. What drivers do we have that actually need to be used which don't have DRM equivalents - and how do we fix that instead ? Alan