[Bug 1018907] Re: plymouth in quantal on arm does only boot with black screen

[Ricardo Salveti]

At the attached patch I included a patch already available at upstream,
that adds a new generic driver for the drm renderer plugin.

This generic driver is supposed to work on radeon, nouveau and omap, and
any other generic use case using the drm driver. As the plymouth package
implies at a bunch of ubuntu specific changes, I decided to just
backport this patch instead of rebasing it on top of 0.8.5.1.

I also had to include another fix related with the new libdrm package
(2.4.38), which changes the old nouveau library to libdrm_nouveau1,
otherwise the nouveau plugin would be linked with the wrong libdrm
nouveau implementation.

And, as a side effect, I had to update the autoreconf.patch, making the
debdiff quite large, but due differences on using a newer
autoconf/automake than the one previously used when the patch was
previously updated.

Tested on Pandaboard and I can now see the splash screen during boot.
Will attach plymouth.log as well.

** Patch added: "debdiff with the new generic driver for drm renderer plugin"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1018907/+attachment/3263428/+files/plymouth_0.8.4-0ubuntu2.debdiff

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Title:
  plymouth in quantal on arm does only boot with black screen

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “plymouth” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  during the debugging of bug 1010009 it was found that plymouth only
  shows a black screen on boot in precise instead of showing the splash
  screen on boot . shutting down results in proper shutdown splash
  behavior though.

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