Hi, On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Max Staudt <mstaudt@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm hooking into the in-kernel terminal emulator, because the bootsplash is a > functional extension of that. It just happens that fbcon sits on top of FB, so I > work with what I get. > > And the console in turn happens to work on all FB and KMS drivers, so it > makes users of all kinds of drivers happy. In fact, that's why the FB emulation > in KMS drivers came to be in the first place, if I remember right - to ensure > fbcon continues to work. But what about multi-monitor? what about hidpi screens? Ideally you want each monitor to show the splash in a way that best fits that monitor. You can't do that if you're drawing all over fbcon... and it's not like multiple monitors and 4k screens are niche these days. --Ray _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
