Improvements for the PS3

[Geoff Levand]

Hi Geert, Fredrik,

On 07/19/2018 12:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On 07/14/2018 09:49 AM, Fredrik Noring wrote:
>>>
>>> et voilà, the screen came alive and the kernel panic was revealed! It seems
>>> the kernel panics so fast that the PS3 frame buffer is unprepared. This is,
>>> of course, very unfortunate because trying to debug the boot process without
>>> a screen or any other means of obtaining console text is quite difficult.
>>
> What about letting ps3fb register a panic notifier to sync the screen, like
> hyperv_fb does?

Seems like the thing to do.  Fredrik, do you want to try it?  Otherwise, I'll
work on it when I have some time.

-Geoff