Hi I cut down my previous series to no longer include the SimpleDRM driver. If anyone is interested, you can find it here: http://lwn.net/Articles/558104/ I will resend it once these preparation patches are in. Changes since v2: - added common x86 formats (reported by hpa) (patch #5) This whole series (including simpledrm) is tested by Stephen and me. I would be glad if maintainers could ack/nack this so I can continue my work. This series is pretty small and just converts x86 to use platform-devices instead of global objects to pass framebuffer data to drivers. The commit messages explain everything in detail. The idea is to create a "platform-framebuffer" device which drivers can bind to. If x86 boot code detectes efi or vesa framebuffers, it creates efi-framebuffer or vesa-framebuffer devices instead. Additionally, if the modes are compatible, "simple-framebuffer" devices are created so simplefb can be used on x86. This feature is only enabled if CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected (off by default) so users without simplefb still get boot logs. @Stephen: I wasn't sure whether you tested the efi/vesa framebuffer changes, too, so I didn't add your tested-by there. And I changed patch #5 so I dropped it there, too. Thanks for testing! Thanks David David Herrmann (8): fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data fbdev: simplefb: mark as fw and allocate apertures x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers x86: sysfb: move EFI quirks from efifb to sysfb fbdev: simplefb: add common x86 RGB formats fbdev: vesafb: bind to platform-framebuffer device fbdev: efifb: bind to efi-framebuffer fbdev: fbcon: select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING arch/x86/Kconfig | 26 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/sysfb.h | 98 +++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 3 + arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c | 74 ++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c | 95 +++++++++++ drivers/video/Kconfig | 5 +- drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 3 +- drivers/video/efifb.c | 302 ++++----------------------------- drivers/video/simplefb.c | 58 +++++-- drivers/video/vesafb.c | 55 ++---- include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h | 63 +++++++ 12 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/sysfb.h create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h -- 1.8.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
