From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:03:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb Message-Id: <20170711210301.GA4515@sudip-laptop> List-Id: References: <1498856263-4544-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1498856263-4544-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Teddy Wang , stable@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:57:43PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > From: Teddy Wang > > 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. > > Cc: # v4.4+ > Signed-off-by: Teddy Wang > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee > --- > > 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.' A gentle ping. -- Regards Sudip