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

Max Staudt
2018-01-03T18:04:47Z

On 12/31/2017 01:53 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:07:53 +0100
> Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> 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 ?
It's *at least* the above named drivers: efifb, vesafb, xenfb.

Max