From: libv@skynet.be (Luc Verhaegen)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:02:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/5] simplefb: add clock handling code
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 10:28:48AM -0500, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
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> Simplefb is also being developed as a way of protecting the BIOS setup
> of the framebuffer past the boot process and out into use as a normal
> user space console.  I in no way support this use. We have experienced
> decades of problems on the x86 with VGA and BIOSes that I do not wish
> to repeat in the ARM world.

Oh wow.

Luc Verhaegen, aka, the guy who made BIOS-free display drivers possible.