Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > index e894eb2..a3167fa 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
> >  		goto err_enable_device;
> >  
> >  	rc = pci_request_regions(pci_dev, "virtio-pci");
> > -	if (rc)
> > +	if (rc && ((pci_dev->class >> 8) != PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA))
> >  		goto err_request_regions;
> >  
> >  	if (force_legacy) {
> 
> This is probably what you described as "the only concern?

Ahem, no, forgot that one, but it is related.  With vesafb using and
registering the vga compat framebuffer bar pci_request_regions will not
succeed.

vesafb will be unregistered later on (this is what I was refering to) by
the virtio-gpu driver.

> If we only need to request specific
> regions, I think we should do exactly that, requesting only parts of
> regions that are covered by the virtio capabilities.

That should work too.

cheers,
  Gerd