On Mon, May 6, 2024, at 16:53, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2024, at 15:14, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> >> This one is. And it doesn't need to be simpledrm, just a drm kms driver >> with fbdev emulation. Heck even if you have an fbdev driver you should >> control the corresponding backlight explicitly, and not rely on the fb >> notifier to magical enable/disable some random backlights somewhere. >> >> So please do not encourage using this in any modern code. ... > Alternatively, I wonder if that recovery image could be changed > to access the screen through the /dev/dri/ interfaces? I have > no experience in using those without Xorg or Wayland, is that > a sensible thing to do?
Replying to myself here, I think I found the answer in https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery/+/refs/heads/main/minui/ which has separate backends for fbdev and drm, and should just work as long as the drm driver is loaded in the recovery image. Florian, do you know why this is not being used on the machines you are looking at? Arnd
