Re: [PATCH v2] drm/rockchip: remove existing generic drivers to take over the device

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Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2021, 09:48:33 CEST schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> There are drivers that register framebuffer devices very early in the boot
> process and make use of the existing framebuffer as setup by the firmware.
> 
> If one of those drivers has registered a fbdev, then the fallback fbdev of
> the DRM driver won't be bound to the framebuffer console. To avoid that,
> remove any existing generic driver and take over the graphics device.
> 
> By doing that, the fb mapped to the console is switched correctly from the
> early fbdev to the one registered by the rockchip DRM driver:
> 
>     [   40.752420] fb0: switching to rockchip-drm-fb from EFI VGA
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>

fwiw, this looks like the right thing to do. I haven't found time to test
though yet. So anyway

Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>


Heiko


> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Move drm_aperture_remove_framebuffers() call to .bind callback (tzimmermann).
> - Adapt subject line, commit message, etc accordingly.
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> index 212bd87c0c4..b730b8d5d94 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include <linux/console.h>
>  #include <linux/iommu.h>
>  
> +#include <drm/drm_aperture.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_fb_helper.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h>
> @@ -114,6 +115,15 @@ static int rockchip_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
>  	struct rockchip_drm_private *private;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	/* Remove existing drivers that may own the framebuffer memory. */
> +	ret = drm_aperture_remove_framebuffers(false, "rockchip-drm-fb");
> +	if (ret) {
> +		DRM_DEV_ERROR(dev,
> +			      "Failed to remove existing framebuffers - %d.\n",
> +			      ret);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
>  	drm_dev = drm_dev_alloc(&rockchip_drm_driver, dev);
>  	if (IS_ERR(drm_dev))
>  		return PTR_ERR(drm_dev);
> 







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