Hi folks,
Problem at hand: A virtual machine, equipped with two display devices,
one virtual, one physical (using pci pass-through, or kvmgt-based vgpu).
There is no easy way for the user to configure which of the two display
devices fbcon should run on. i915 happens to win over bochs-drm or qxl,
so you can't use the emulated gfx device as text console.
One way out would be to add a module option to each driver, to turn off
fbdev emulation. Attached patch does that for i915.
Comments? Better ideas?
cheers,
Gerd
From 19236e412a6f0e9390c1ce77d8702bbdb5511174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:05:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] drm i915: add fbdev option
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
index 3e3632c..cc0ba3e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
#include <drm/i915_drm.h>
#include "i915_drv.h"
+static bool enable_fbdev = true;
+module_param_named(fbdev, enable_fbdev, bool, 0600);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(fbdev,
+ "Enable legacy fbdev emulation [default=true]");
+
static int intel_fbdev_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
{
struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = info->par;
@@ -706,6 +711,9 @@ int intel_fbdev_init(struct drm_device *dev)
struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(dev);
int ret;
+ if (!enable_fbdev)
+ return 0;
+
if (WARN_ON(INTEL_INFO(dev)->num_pipes == 0))
return -ENODEV;
@@ -747,6 +755,8 @@ void intel_fbdev_initial_config_async(struct drm_device *dev)
{
struct intel_fbdev *ifbdev = to_i915(dev)->fbdev;
+ if (!ifbdev)
+ return;
ifbdev->cookie = async_schedule(intel_fbdev_initial_config, ifbdev);
}
--
1.8.3.1
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