Re: [PATCH v9 8/9] fbcon: Use screen info to find primary device

[Mario Limonciello <superm1@kernel.org>]

On 7/22/25 9:38 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
>>
>> On systems with non VGA GPUs fbcon can't find the primary GPU because
>> video_is_primary_device() only checks the VGA arbiter.
>>
>> Add a screen info check to video_is_primary_device() so that callers
>> can get accurate data on such systems.
> 
> This relies on screen_info, which I think is an x86 BIOS-ism.  Isn't
> there a UEFI console path?  How does that compare with this?  Is that
> relevant or is it something completely different?

When I created and tested this I actually did this on a UEFI system 
(which provides a UEFI GOP driver).
  >
>>   bool video_is_primary_device(struct device *dev)
>>   {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCREEN_INFO
>> +	struct screen_info *si = &screen_info;
>> +#endif
>>   	struct pci_dev *pdev;
>>   
>>   	if (!dev_is_pci(dev))
>> @@ -34,7 +38,18 @@ bool video_is_primary_device(struct device *dev)
>>   
>>   	pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
>>   
>> -	return (pdev == vga_default_device());
>> +	if (!pci_is_display(pdev))
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	if (pdev == vga_default_device())
>> +		return true;
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCREEN_INFO
>> +	if (pdev == screen_info_pci_dev(si))
>> +		return true;
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +	return false;
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_is_primary_device);
>>   
>> -- 
>> 2.43.0
>>