Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751643AbdLSQ0c (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:26:32 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58945 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbdLSQ02 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:26:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/13] bootsplash: Flush framebuffer after drawing To: Daniel Vetter Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Fbdev development list , michal@markovi.net, sndirsch@suse.com, Oliver Neukum , Takashi Iwai , dri-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , =?UTF-8?Q?Bero_Rosenkr=c3=a4nzer?= , philm@manjaro.org 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> <8036b6a6-6ed5-2f34-e854-1c397a9f34d4@suse.de> From: Max Staudt Message-ID: <84bf675c-5415-00a3-d4b4-0ff2b14f0c2a@suse.de> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:26:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 16 On 12/19/2017 05:09 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > btw the reason drmcon didn't move is that David Herrmann moved on from > hacking on graphics stuff, and no one needs it. There's nothing > fundamentally wrong with his patches for a basic emergency console on > plain drm, or the simpledrm driver to get a basic drm framebuffer up > on vesafb/efifb and friends. Just wanted to bring this in since you > sound like you're expecting this to magically have happened somehow. > We don't merge code without real use-cases. Don't worry, I'm not expecting this to have magically happened. It will happen when it will happen, or maybe never. I'm just working with that I've got right now, and once a successor to fbcon takes it's throne, I'm very happy to help move the bootsplash over. Max