Comment # 13 on bug 1232727 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #12)
> There are three issues with this approach:
> 
> 1. A bug in the code: ID_PATH does not start with
> platform-simple-framebuffer, but it's in the middle, e.g.
> ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:01.0-platform-simple-framebuffer.0
> 2. For platforms where only the simpledrm driver is available there is an
> arbitrary timeout (8s by default) until plymouth tries to display anything.
> 3. For platforms where the simpledrm driver is available but not supposed to
> be used (because a native one will be loaded), it might still break if the
> native driver doesn't take over within that arbitrary timeout.

IMO the correct way here is:

Fix 1. To avoid 2 + 3, add a list of platform device IDs which require
simpledrmfb and only use simpledrmfb for those. That's essentially what
plymouth-only_use_fb_for_cirrus_bochs.patch did, just ported over from fb0 to
simpledrm devices.

For now we can see how far we get with just removing the patch and relying on
issue 1 preventing issue 2.