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> Can you apply the following patch to include logo drawing support for all formats :-)?

Applied :-)

> It's not the switch back to text mode, that's very doable (see my other
> reply).  It's during give_up_console() at fbcon module exit.  At this
> point, the console suddenly disappears and freezes the system.  Maybe we
> can save the global "conswitchp" during fbcon module init, then
> something like this at fbcon module exit:
>
> void __exit fb_console_exit(void)
> {
> 	give_up_console(&fbcon);
> 	take_over_console(saved_conswitchp, ...);
> }
>
> Is this feasible?

I thought about it but the solution is not easy. Consider that we have
vgacon and mdacon. Then I load in hgafb. Here the goal is to take over
mdacon. So we have to prevent taking over vgacon. Since there is only on
conswitchp we are in trouble.

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