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On 20-11-18, 09:35, Linus Walleij wrote:
> The whole issue with splash screens and different hardware
> turned over to Linux in running state is a bit imperfect I would
> say, I think Viresh was working on boot constraints to get
> handover of different systems components into some kind
> of shape but maybe that stopped short because of the
> complexities involved.

It got stuck mostly due to lack of use-cases where that can be useful.
All I could find until now is LCD and earlycon stuff.

Though things may change soon after the interconnect subsystem gets
merged, as we will have bootloader requirements for each and every
device in that case which the boot loader enables and passes on to
kernel.

-- 
viresh