The console subsystem only provides a function to switch to a given
console, but we want to actually only switach away from vgacon.
Unconditionally switching to the dummy console resulted in switching
away from fbcon in multi-gpu setups when other gpu drivers are loaded
before i915.
Then either the reinitialization of fbcon when i915 registers its
fbdev emulation or the teardown of the fbcon driver killed the
machine. So only switch to the dummy console when it's required.
Kudos to Chris for the original idea, I've only refined it a bit to
still unregister vgacon even when it's currently unused.
This regression has been introduced in
commit a4de05268e674e8ed31df6348269e22d6c6a1803
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 5 16:20:46 2014 +0200
drm/i915: Kick out vga console
Reported-and-tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 6c656392d67d..d44344140627 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1464,12 +1464,13 @@ static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
#else
static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
{
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;
DRM_INFO("Replacing VGA console driver\n");
console_lock();
- ret = do_take_over_console(&dummy_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1, 1);
+ if (con_is_bound(&vga_con))
+ ret = do_take_over_console(&dummy_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1, 1);
if (ret == 0) {
ret = do_unregister_con_driver(&vga_con);
--
2.0.0
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