Draft: Add S40framebuffer-module-linux to probe simpledrm or simplefb
Currently some Debian kernels are built with the simplefb
driver built in for simple-framebuffer
devices. The more modern alternative to it is simpledrm
. It is possible we might switch to that, and we might even enable it as a module to avoid having the drm
dependency as built-in.
Furthermore, if we build kernels with SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y
, the platform drivers like efifb
and vesafb
can work through either simpledrm
or simplefb
depending on which is available. Unfortunately, they sometimes do not get probed automatically, specifically in the most prominent efifb
case.
Try to probe simpledrm
in an init script on Linux systems with a fallback to simplefb
, so the platform drivers can still work in the above configuration.
Also see: kernel-team/linux!1312 (closed)
(Not tested in installer yet, will do later.)