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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/3] console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover
    On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:36:09 +0200
    Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> 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
    >

    For 1 and 2:

    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

    I'll let others handle patch 3.

    -- Steve

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