From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1768307AbcHRObT (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:31:19 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37441 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1950464AbcHROPi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:15:38 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ben Skeggs Subject: [PATCH 4.7 129/186] drm/nouveau: check for supported chipset before booting fbdev off the hw Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:59:06 +0200 Message-Id: <20160818135937.782106003@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20160818135932.219369981@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160818135932.219369981@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ben Skeggs commit 0e67bed2c765ff0fdaec62c963881f5416fe3692 upstream. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c @@ -324,7 +324,16 @@ static int nouveau_drm_probe(struct pci_ !vga_switcheroo_handler_flags()) return -EPROBE_DEFER; - /* remove conflicting drivers (vesafb, efifb etc) */ + /* We need to check that the chipset is supported before booting + * fbdev off the hardware, as there's no way to put it back. + */ + ret = nvkm_device_pci_new(pdev, NULL, "error", true, false, 0, &device); + if (ret) + return ret; + + nvkm_device_del(&device); + + /* Remove conflicting drivers (vesafb, efifb etc). */ aper = alloc_apertures(3); if (!aper) return -ENOMEM;