This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
staging-sm750fb-avoid-conflicting-vesafb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 740c433ec35187b45abe08bb6c45a321a791be8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:57:43 +0100
Subject: staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb
From: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 740c433ec35187b45abe08bb6c45a321a791be8e upstream.
If vesafb is enabled in the config then /dev/fb0 is created by vesa
and this sm750 driver gets fb1, fb2. But we need to be fb0 and fb1 to
effectively work with xorg.
So if it has been alloted fb1, then try to remove the other fb0.
In the previous send, why #ifdef is used was asked.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/57
Answered at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/69
Also pasting here for reference.
'Did a quick research into "why".
The patch d8801e4df91e ("x86/PCI: Set IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW only for the
default VGA device") has started setting IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW in flags
for a default VGA device and that is being done only for x86.
And so, we will need that #ifdef to check IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW as that
needs to be checked only for a x86 and not for other arch.'
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
@@ -1002,6 +1002,26 @@ NO_PARAM:
}
}
+static int lynxfb_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+ struct apertures_struct *ap;
+ bool primary = false;
+
+ ap = alloc_apertures(1);
+ if (!ap)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ap->ranges[0].base = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
+ ap->ranges[0].size = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+ primary = pdev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].flags &
+ IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW;
+#endif
+ remove_conflicting_framebuffers(ap, "sm750_fb1", primary);
+ kfree(ap);
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int lynxfb_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
const struct pci_device_id *ent)
{
@@ -1009,6 +1029,10 @@ static int lynxfb_pci_probe(struct pci_d
struct sm750_dev *sm750_dev = NULL;
int fbidx;
+ err = lynxfb_kick_out_firmware_fb(pdev);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
/* enable device */
if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
pr_err("can not enable device.\n");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from teddy.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/staging-sm750fb-avoid-conflicting-vesafb.patch