Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v2] powerpc: 'monitor' environment variable contains full video configuration

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

It may be a blank screen, or a (previously loaded) splash screen, or (a bit later) some graphics application outputting data.

It's up to the user to decide that.

Ok, I think I get it. But I'm going to miss this merge window, because now I have to rewrite half of my patch.

What is the standard mechanism for enabling the console on the video display?

From what I can tell, if video_hw_init() returns non-NULL, then the console is

set to the video display, regardless as to what the "stdout" environment variable says.