From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: briannorris@chromium.org, jwerner@chromium.org,
javierm@redhat.com, samuel@sholland.org,
maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org,
airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch,
chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] drm, coreboot: Add DRM coreboot driver
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:13:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWoBQGckP3q8KcDX@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115082128.12460-1-tzimmermann@suse.de>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:57:10AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Coreboot implements framebuffer support via simple-framebuffer. Provide a
> dedicated DRM driver. Keep the simple-framebuffer code for now.
>
> For each firmware's provided framebuffer, we prefer a dedicated DRM driver
> tailored towards the platform's feature set. The coreboot framebuffer
> device currently creates a simple-framebuffer device for the provided
> framebuffer aperture. But simple-framebuffer is for DeviceTree nodes; not
> for coreboot. The simple-framebuffer infrastructure should be phased out
> for non-DT use cases. Coreboot is one of the final users of the code
> (besides n64).
>
> Patches 1 to 5 start by fixing problems in the coreboot framebuffer
> implementation. There is a possible dangling pointer, the memory is
> marked as busy, the device hierarchy is incorrect, and a few minor things.
>
> Patches 6 to 9 prepare the coreboot support for use by external drivers.
> Specifically, structures for the entries os the coreboot payload table
> have to be exported.
>
> Patches 10 to 12 add corebootdrm, a DRM driver for the new
> coreboot-framebuffer platform device. Corebootdrm follows the pattern
> established by similar drivers. It also uses the same sysfb helpers. It
> is therefore fairly small. With patch 11, it has feature parity with
> simpledrm on the old simple-framebuffer. Patch 12 adds support for panel-
> orientation flags that coreboot makes available.
What would you suggest to submit the patches (e.g., which patches submit
through which tree)? Do they have build-time dependencies?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-16 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-15 7:57 [PATCH v2 00/12] drm, coreboot: Add DRM coreboot driver Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not unregister platform device Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:28 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not mark framebuffer as busy Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:28 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Init memory resource with helper macro Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:28 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Tie platform device to PCI hardware Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:29 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Fix dependencies Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 20:54 ` Julius Werner
2026-01-16 7:30 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-17 1:38 ` Julius Werner
2026-01-29 12:41 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 10:24 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] firmware: google: Init coreboot bus with subsys_initcall() Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 10:25 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] firmware: google: Clean up include statements in coreboot_table.h Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 10:25 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] firmware: google: Export coreboot table entries Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 10:25 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] firmware: google: Pack structures for " Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 20:56 ` Julius Werner
2026-01-16 7:32 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] drm/sysfb: Generalize pixel-format matching Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] drm/sysfb: corebootdrm: Add DRM driver for coreboot framebuffers Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-27 7:49 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-29 14:56 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] drm/corebotdrm: Support panel orientation Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-27 7:49 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-27 8:04 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2026-01-29 15:01 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-15 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 00/12] drm, coreboot: Add DRM coreboot driver Julius Werner
2026-01-16 7:33 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-16 9:13 ` Tzung-Bi Shih [this message]
2026-01-16 9:19 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-16 9:51 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
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