Hi Daniel, > > I think for a substantial improvement here in robustness what you really > want is > - kmscon in userspace > - disable FB layer > - ideally also disable console/vt layer in the kernel > - have a minimal emergency/boot-up log thing in drm, patches for that > floated around a few times I assume you refer to this work by David Herrmann: "[RFC] drm: add kernel-log renderer" https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-March/055136.html Very interesting. Does anyone knows why this never hit mainline? Sam - who is looking forward to winter with more time for hacking again