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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: i.MX6 frame buffer inside barebox?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:03:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140623100325.GX15686@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOpc7mEtWpacJ1Q7nqBmYzHYEWdQBw7hrCgqLP-9bijpP9qsXw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > My preferred solution is to be fast enough in the bootloader
> > and show a splash screen under Linux only.
> 
> Hmm, I'd like to not do that. Splash screen from Linux usually means
> that I need an initrd. And an initrd is seldom needed on an embedded
> device (i.e. no complicated RAID or DM setup). And it just slows down
> the overall boot ...
> 
> But thanks for the info anyway.
> 
> Oh, one more question: do you have any idea if a simplefb would be
> fast enought for X11 ?

Yes, I think so. The (mainline) IPU drivers alone wouldn't help you
anyway. You'll need the FSL EXA drivers to get anything faster I guess.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-23 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 14:26 Holger Schurig
2014-06-18 19:58 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-06-23  7:25   ` Holger Schurig
2014-06-23  7:43     ` Sascha Hauer
2014-06-23  8:42       ` Holger Schurig
2014-06-23 10:03         ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-06-23 16:57         ` Robert Schwebel
2014-06-25 13:46           ` Holger Schurig
2014-06-26  5:55             ` Sascha Hauer

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