[PATCH v5 0/3] console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover

[Hans de Goede]

HI,

On 28-06-18 15:50, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:03:48 AM Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Here is v5 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.
>>
>> Bartlomiej, I believe that this patch-set is ready for merging now and
>> the first patch has Petr's ack, so can we get this merged now?
> 
> Done, thanks for patches (also for reviews & acks).

You're welcome and thank you for merging these.

Regards,

Hans


> 
>> Also please create an inmutable (or topic) branch for this, so that the
>> drm people can merge it into drm-tip for additional testing.
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> The following changes since commit 7daf201d7fe8334e2d2364d4e8ed3394ec9af819:
> 
>    Linux 4.18-rc2 (2018-06-24 20:54:29 +0800)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>    https://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git tags/ib-fbdev-drm-v4.19-deferred-console-takeover
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 83d83bebf40132e2d55ec58af666713cc76f9764:
> 
>    console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover (2018-06-28 15:20:30 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Immutable branch between fbdev and drm for the v4.19 merge window
> (contains the deferred console takeover feature)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Hans de Goede (3):
>        printk: Export is_console_locked
>        fbcon: Call WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() where applicable
>        console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover
> 
>   Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt       |  7 ++++
>   drivers/video/console/Kconfig    | 11 ++++++
>   drivers/video/console/dummycon.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/console.h          |  5 +++
>   kernel/printk/printk.c           |  1 +
>   6 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
>