Reuse framebuffer after a kexec (amdgpu / efifb)

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:09 AM Guilherme G. Piccoli
<gpiccoli at igalia.com> wrote:
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> Thanks a lot Alex / Gerd and Thomas, very informative stuff! I'm glad
> there are projects to collect/save the data and reuse after a kdump,
> this is very useful.
>
> I'll continue my study on the atombios thing of AMD and QXL, maybe at
> least we can make it work in qemu, that'd be great (like a small
> initdriver to reprogram de paravirtual device on kexec boot).

Why not just reload the driver after kexec?

Alex


>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Guilherme