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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 27-06-18 11:47, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 11:15:20 AM Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:36:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede 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
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>> -Export is_console_locke() for use in modules (as fbcon may be built as
>>>> a .ko)
>>>> -Use WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() in several places in the fbcon code to
>>>> assert
>>>>   proper locking (requested by Daniel)
>>>> -Unregister the fbcon-dummycon-output-notifier on fbcon_exit() (req. by
>>>> Daniel)
>>>> -Document the fbcon=nodefer commandline option (req. by Emil)
>>>>
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>> -Check the whole string when checking for erases in putcs, instead of
>>>> just
>>>>   the first char
>>>> -Make dummycon_blank return 1, so that a redraw gets triggered and any
>>>> text
>>>>   rendered while blanked gets output so that it can trigger a deferred
>>>>   takeover if one is pending
>>>
>>>
>>> Wrt merging I think it'd be best if we stuff this into drm-misc-next -
>>> that will increase testing by gpu drivers a lot, instead of a suprise
>>> when
>>> the fbdev pull lands in upstream.
>>>
>>> Bart, is that ok with you?
>>
>>
>> Not really, since there are efifb changes in the queue which depend
>> on this series I would really prefer to merge all patches through
>> fbdev tree.
>>
>> Also fbdev tree is pulled into -next kernels so testing coverage
>> should be okay (I assume that everybody are testing -next kernels in
>> addition to their own branches :-)..

Ime this is a rather unrealistic assumption ...

> If you are talking about the "efifb: Copy the ACPI BGRT boot graphics to the
> framebuffer" series, I could push those to drm-misc-next too (once acked).
>
> I think most GPU driver developers are running drm-tip and not
> -next, so putting things in drm-misc-next would give the changes somewhat
> more test-exposure on a wider range of GPUs I believe. Where as -next
> testing will likely be more server use-case oriented.
>
> Alternatively you could merge things in the fbdev tree, do an
> unmutable branch and then that could be merged into drm-misc-next by
> the drm-misc-next maintainers.
>
> Note either way is fine with me. This is up to you and Daniel.

Yeah pull request for a topic branch works too.
-Daniel
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