Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Allow to use DRM fbdev emulation layer with CONFIG_FB disabled

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