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Commit 83d83beb authored by Hans de Goede's avatar Hans de Goede Committed by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover


Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.

This behavior is undesirable in cases where a smooth graphical bootup is
desired, in such cases we typically want the contents of the framebuffer
(typically a vendor logo) to stay in place as is.

The current solution for this problem (on embedded systems) is to not
enable fbcon.

This commit adds a new FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER config option,
which when enabled defers fbcon taking over the console from the dummy
console until the first text is displayed on the console. Together with the
"quiet" kernel commandline option, this allows fbcon to still be used
together with a smooth graphical bootup, having it take over the console as
soon as e.g. an error message is logged.

Note the choice to detect the first console output in the dummycon driver,
rather then handling this entirely inside the fbcon code, was made after
2 failed attempts to handle this entirely inside the fbcon code. The fbcon
code is woven quite tightly into the console code, making this to only
feasible option.

Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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