i.MX6 frame buffer inside barebox?

[Sascha Hauer]

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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