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

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:36:09 +0200
Hans de Goede [off-list ref] 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