Bug ID 1193250
Summary Fully switch TW to DRM graphics drivers and disable fbdev drivers
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Enhancement
Priority P5 - None
Component X.Org
Assignee gfx-bugs@suse.de
Reporter tzimmermann@suse.com
QA Contact gfx-bugs@suse.de
Found By ---
Blocker ---

In TW, we mostly use fbdev vesafb and efifb drivers for early-boot display
output and as fallback.

This has a number of problems, such as

  * Most modern Wayland compositors don't support fbdev any longer. Even X'
support is bolted-on. Generally, userspace support for fbdev is slowly fading.
See bug 1187154.

  * Handover from fbdev to native DRM drivers is unreliable and can result in
stuck systems during boot. See bug 1181913.

Therefore, replace TW's fbdev drivers with simpledrm and maybe other DRM
drivers.


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