The modesettings driver should be better than the fbdev driver, so we should use that. #7560 is relevant too.
M2 missed. Moving to M3.
Created attachment 3168 [details] Enable xf86-video-modesettings for Beagle bone BSP
Can you send that patch to the oe-core list please?
Patch created at https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2016-May/010517.html
Merged in master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=32bbf685709d2c6c0d8938e18ef21130d1ea8eef