On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:33 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On 11-08-24 04:48 AM, Liming Wang wrote: > > This patch is just a workaround to speed up boot time of qemuppc, because > > qemuppc has no framebuffer support, no need to start X server for qemuppc. > > > > Richard suggested to fix the X scripts so that if an fbdev X server is in > > use and > > the framebuffer device node does not exist, it just exits cleanly with a > > suitable message and doesn't timeout on boot. > > > > But I think it needs more time to implement and test. > >> X scripts serve for all the boards. And we also can't assume all the > >> boards use the same > >> framebuffer device. So how to detect whether the framebuffer device > >> exists is board dependent. > >> Maybe we can see whether the device /dev/fb0 exists(it could be created > >> manually, so we should try to open it to verify) > >> or the file /proc/fb exists to confirm the framebuffer device. Anyway, > >> any modification should be > >> tested on all boards to see whether it works. I prefer to mark it as > >> todo task in 1.1 > > We need to cc Richard/Saul on this, so they can re-consider > and merge this as appropriate. But for me, I'm acking this > change.
I've reluctantly merged this but I consider this a bit of a cop-out :( Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto