From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sedat Dilek Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:36:08 +0000 Subject: Re: 3.8-rc2: EFI framebuffer lock inversion... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Daniel J Blueman Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Daniel Vetter On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > just wanted to test the fb-fix [2] from Alan and followed the thread in [1]. > Me is also working with i915 KMS. > > I looked at nouveau KMS driver and adapted the part for i915: > > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-200- /* remove conflicting > drivers (vesafb, efifb etc) */ > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c:201: aper = alloc_apertures(3); > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-202- if (!aper) > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-203- return -ENOMEM; > > Untested by me, feel free to test. > > Maybe some of the i915 and/or fb driver experts can comment on the problem. > That is the i915 part [---> i915_kick_out_firmware_fb()] where I looked at [1]. - Sedat - [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c;hb=refs/tags/v3.8-rc2#l1393 > Regards, > - Sedat - > > [1] http://marc.info/?t5721787600001&r=1&w=2 > [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1757061/