Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:36:09 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Here is v4 of my patch-set, to delay fbcon taking over the console (and
> binding to fbdev devices) until there actually is some text output to the
> console. This is intended for use with the "quiet" cmdline option, in
> combination with a bootloader which leaves the vendor's logo /
> EFI bootgraphics put up by the firmware intact on the EFI framebuffer.
> 
> The end goal here is a boot where the firmware shows its boot graphics
> and these stay in place for a couple of seconds until the GUI loads and
> the GUI then smoothly takes over the framebuffer without any distruptions.
> 
> This patch-set spans 2 subsystems.
> 
> Petr, the printk subsys change is really trivial (1 line addition) can we
> get your Acked-by for merging all 3 patches through the fbdev tree?
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> Changes in v4:
> -Keep the comments about which fbcon functions need locks in place
> 

For 1 and 2:

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

I'll let others handle patch 3.

-- Steve