On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:24 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Create a platform device for each OF-declared framebuffer and have
> offb bind to these devices. Allows for real hot-unplugging and other
> drivers besides offb.
>
> Originally, offb created framebuffer devices while initializing its
> module by parsing the OF device tree. No actual Linux device was set
> up. This tied OF framebuffers to offb and makes writing other drivers
> for the OF framebuffers complicated. The absence of a Linux device
> prevented real hot-unplugging. Adding a distinct platform device for
> each OF framebuffer solves both problems. Specifically, a DRM drivers
> can now provide graphics output with modern userspace.
>
> Some of the offb init code is now located in the OF initialization.
> There's now also an implementation of of_platform_default_populate_init(),
> which was missing before. The OF side creates different devices for
> either OF display nodes or bootx displays as they require different
> handling by the driver. The offb drivers picks up each type of device
> and runs the appropriate fbdev initialization.
>
> Tested with OF display nodes on qemu's ppc64le target.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/of/platform.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/video/fbdev/offb.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 2 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index a16b74f32aa9..4c63b9a73587 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -447,6 +447,60 @@ int of_platform_bus_probe(struct device_node *root,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_platform_bus_probe);
>
> +static int __init of_platform_populate_framebuffers(void)
> +{
> + struct device_node *boot_display = NULL;
> + struct device_node *node;
> + struct platform_device *dev;
> + int ret;
> +
> + node = of_get_compatible_child(of_chosen, "simple-framebuffer");
> + of_platform_device_create(node, NULL, NULL);
> + of_node_put(node);
> +
The rest is PPC only, so bail out here if !PPC.
> + /* Check if we have a MacOS display without a node spec */
> + if (of_get_property(of_chosen, "linux,bootx-noscreen", NULL)) {
> + /*
> + * The old code tried to work out which node was the MacOS
> + * display based on the address. I'm dropping that since the
> + * lack of a node spec only happens with old BootX versions
> + * (users can update) and with this code, they'll still get
> + * a display (just not the palette hacks).
> + */
> + dev = platform_device_alloc("bootx-noscreen", 0);
> + if (WARN_ON(!dev))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + ret = platform_device_add(dev);
> + if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
> + platform_device_put(dev);
> + return ret;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * For OF framebuffers, first create the device for the boot display,
> + * then for the other framebuffers. Only fail for the boot display;
> + * ignore errors for the rest.
> + */
> + for_each_node_by_type(node, "display") {
> + if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) ||
> + !of_get_property(node, "linux,boot-display", NULL))
> + continue;
> + dev = of_platform_device_create(node, "of-display", NULL);
> + if (WARN_ON(!dev))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + boot_display = node;
> + break;
> + }
> + for_each_node_by_type(node, "display") {
> + if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) || node == boot_display)
> + continue;
> + of_platform_device_create(node, "of-display", NULL);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * of_platform_populate() - Populate platform_devices from device tree data
> * @root: parent of the first level to probe or NULL for the root of the tree
> @@ -541,9 +595,7 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> of_node_put(node);
> }
>
> - node = of_get_compatible_child(of_chosen, "simple-framebuffer");
> - of_platform_device_create(node, NULL, NULL);
> - of_node_put(node);
> + of_platform_populate_framebuffers();
>
> /* Populate everything else. */
> of_platform_default_populate(NULL, NULL, NULL);
I'm pretty sure it's just this call that's the problem for PPC though
none of the above existed when adding this caused a regression. Can we
remove the ifdef and just make this call conditional on
!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC).
> @@ -551,6 +603,20 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> return 0;
> }
> arch_initcall_sync(of_platform_default_populate_init);
> +#else
> +static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> +{
> + device_links_supplier_sync_state_pause();
> +
> + if (!of_have_populated_dt())
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + of_platform_populate_framebuffers();
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +arch_initcall_sync(of_platform_default_populate_init);
> +#endif
>
> static int __init of_platform_sync_state_init(void)
> {
> @@ -558,7 +624,6 @@ static int __init of_platform_sync_state_init(void)
> return 0;
> }
> late_initcall_sync(of_platform_sync_state_init);
> -#endif
>
> int of_platform_device_destroy(struct device *dev, void *data)
> {
