Re: [Nouveau] [RFC, drm-misc-next v4 0/9] PCI/VGA: Allowing the user to select the primary video adapter at boot time

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On 2023/9/5 23:05, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi

Am 05.09.23 um 15:30 schrieb suijingfeng:
Hi,


On 2023/9/5 18:45, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi

Am 04.09.23 um 21:57 schrieb Sui Jingfeng:
From: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>

On a machine with multiple GPUs, a Linux user has no control over which one is primary at boot time. This series tries to solve above mentioned

If anything, the primary graphics adapter is the one initialized by the firmware. I think our boot-up graphics also make this assumption implicitly.


Yes, but by the time of DRM drivers get loaded successfully,the boot-up graphics already finished. Firmware framebuffer device already get killed by the drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers() function (or its siblings). So, this series is definitely not to interact with the firmware framebuffer

Yes and no. The helpers you mention will attempt to remove the firmware framebuffer on the given PCI device. If you have multiple PCI devices, the other devices would not be affected.

Yes and no.


For the yes part: drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers() only kill the conflict one.
But for a specific machine with the modern UEFI firmware,
there should be only one firmware framebuffer driver.
That shoudd be the EFIFB(UEFI GOP). I do have multiple PCI devices,
but I don't understand when and why a system will have more than one firmware framebuffer.

Even for the machines with the legacy BIOS, the fixed VGA aperture address range
can only be owned by one firmware driver. It is just that we need to handle the
routing, the ->set_decode() callback of vga_client_register() is used to do such
work. Am I correct?





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