Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: Create platform devices for OF framebuffers

[Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:58 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 13.04.22 um 14:51 schrieb Rob Herring:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:24 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Create a platform device for each OF-declared framebuffer and have
> >> offb bind to these devices. Allows for real hot-unplugging and other
> >> drivers besides offb.
> >>
> >> Originally, offb created framebuffer devices while initializing its
> >> module by parsing the OF device tree. No actual Linux device was set
> >> up. This tied OF framebuffers to offb and makes writing other drivers
> >> for the OF framebuffers complicated. The absence of a Linux device
> >> prevented real hot-unplugging. Adding a distinct platform device for
> >> each OF framebuffer solves both problems. Specifically, a DRM drivers
> >> can now provide graphics output with modern userspace.
> >>
> >> Some of the offb init code is now located in the OF initialization.
> >> There's now also an implementation of of_platform_default_populate_init(),
> >> which was missing before. The OF side creates different devices for
> >> either OF display nodes or bootx displays as they require different
> >> handling by the driver. The offb drivers picks up each type of device
> >> and runs the appropriate fbdev initialization.
> >>
> >> Tested with OF display nodes on qemu's ppc64le target.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/of/platform.c      | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/offb.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >>   2 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> >> index a16b74f32aa9..4c63b9a73587 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> >> @@ -447,6 +447,60 @@ int of_platform_bus_probe(struct device_node *root,
> >>   }
> >>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_platform_bus_probe);
> >>
> >> +static int __init of_platform_populate_framebuffers(void)
> >> +{
> >> +       struct device_node *boot_display = NULL;
> >> +       struct device_node *node;
> >> +       struct platform_device *dev;
> >> +       int ret;
> >> +
> >> +       node = of_get_compatible_child(of_chosen, "simple-framebuffer");
> >> +       of_platform_device_create(node, NULL, NULL);
> >> +       of_node_put(node);
> >> +
> >
> > The rest is PPC only, so bail out here if !PPC.
> >
> >> +       /* Check if we have a MacOS display without a node spec */
> >> +       if (of_get_property(of_chosen, "linux,bootx-noscreen", NULL)) {
> >> +               /*
> >> +                * The old code tried to work out which node was the MacOS
> >> +                * display based on the address. I'm dropping that since the
> >> +                * lack of a node spec only happens with old BootX versions
> >> +                * (users can update) and with this code, they'll still get
> >> +                * a display (just not the palette hacks).
> >> +                */
> >> +               dev = platform_device_alloc("bootx-noscreen", 0);
> >> +               if (WARN_ON(!dev))
> >> +                       return -ENOMEM;
> >> +               ret = platform_device_add(dev);
> >> +               if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
> >> +                       platform_device_put(dev);
> >> +                       return ret;
> >> +               }
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +       /*
> >> +        * For OF framebuffers, first create the device for the boot display,
> >> +        * then for the other framebuffers. Only fail for the boot display;
> >> +        * ignore errors for the rest.
> >> +        */
> >> +       for_each_node_by_type(node, "display") {
> >> +               if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) ||
> >> +                   !of_get_property(node, "linux,boot-display", NULL))
> >> +                       continue;
> >> +               dev = of_platform_device_create(node, "of-display", NULL);
> >> +               if (WARN_ON(!dev))
> >> +                       return -ENOMEM;
> >> +               boot_display = node;
> >> +               break;
> >> +       }
> >> +       for_each_node_by_type(node, "display") {
> >> +               if (!of_get_property(node, "linux,opened", NULL) || node == boot_display)
> >> +                       continue;
> >> +               of_platform_device_create(node, "of-display", NULL);
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +       return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >>   /**
> >>    * of_platform_populate() - Populate platform_devices from device tree data
> >>    * @root: parent of the first level to probe or NULL for the root of the tree
> >> @@ -541,9 +595,7 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
> >>                  of_node_put(node);
> >>          }
> >>
> >> -       node = of_get_compatible_child(of_chosen, "simple-framebuffer");
> >> -       of_platform_device_create(node, NULL, NULL);
> >> -       of_node_put(node);
> >> +       of_platform_populate_framebuffers();
> >>
> >>          /* Populate everything else. */
> >>          of_platform_default_populate(NULL, NULL, NULL);
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it's just this call that's the problem for PPC though
> > none of the above existed when adding this caused a regression. Can we
> > remove the ifdef and just make this call conditional on
> > !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC).
>
> Together with the changes in of_platform_populate_framebuffers(), the
> code is more or less an "if-else" depending on PPC. I'll drop
> of_platform_populate_framebuffers() from the patch and make a separate
> implementation of of_platform_default_populate_init for PPC. Seems like
> the easiest solution to me.

That just moves us farther from PPC ever using
of_platform_default_populate_init(). But I don't know that anyone in
PPC cares about that, so fine I guess.

Rob