From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/6] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:59:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CB5630.6060000@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372112849-670-5-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Create a simple fbdev device during SimpleDRM setup so legacy user-space
> and fbcon can use it.
>
> fbdev deletion is quite buggy. A unregister_framebuffer() call followed by
> a printk() causes NULL-derefs in hide_cursor() and other places in the VT
> layer. Hence, we leak the fbdev device currently to make the VT layer
> happy. This needs to be fixed soon! Otherwise, we need a "depends !VT"
> line for SimpleDRM.
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile
> simpledrm-y := simpledrm_drv.o simpledrm_main.o simpledrm_mem.o
>
> +ifdef CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV
> + simpledrm-y += simpledrm_fbdev.o
> +endif
I think that's:
+ simpledrm-$(CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV) += simpledrm_fbdev.o
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 22:27 [RFC 0/6] SimpleDRM Driver (was: dvbe driver) David Herrmann
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data David Herrmann
2013-06-26 20:39 ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-28 10:03 ` David Herrmann
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 2/6] x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers David Herrmann
2013-06-26 20:49 ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-28 10:11 ` David Herrmann
2013-07-01 15:48 ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 3/6] drm: add SimpleDRM driver David Herrmann
2013-06-25 1:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-06-28 9:59 ` David Herrmann
2013-06-26 20:58 ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-28 10:01 ` David Herrmann
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 4/6] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support David Herrmann
2013-06-26 20:59 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-06-28 10:14 ` David Herrmann
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 5/6] drm: add helpers to kick out firmware drivers David Herrmann
2013-06-24 22:27 ` [RFC 6/6] drm: nouveau: kick out firmware drivers during probe David Herrmann
2013-06-26 21:30 ` [RFC 0/6] SimpleDRM Driver (was: dvbe driver) Stephen Warren
2013-06-28 10:43 ` David Herrmann
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