Hi Tomi,

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 3) Draw the logos from an initcall on all frame buffers that exist at that
>>    point in time. Yes, this will destroy (part of) the content that's
>>    currently shown.
>
> Isn't that almost the same as now? The problem is that the fb probes are
> deferred to a very late stage, so we would not have the fbs when the
> suggested initcall would be called.

Currently it's drawn from fbcon_switch().

Some drivers draw it independently from the fbcon code
(au1200fb_drv_probe() and mmpfb_probe()).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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