From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: briannorris@chromium.org, jwerner@chromium.org,
javierm@redhat.com, samuel@sholland.org,
maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org,
airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch,
chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not unregister platform device
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:28:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXclp4omCL-BTV7R@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115082128.12460-2-tzimmermann@suse.de>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:57:11AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> The native driver takes over the framebuffer aperture by removing the
> system- framebuffer platform device. Afterwards the pointer in drvdata
> is dangling. Remove the entire logic around drvdata and let the kernel's
> aperture helpers handle this. The platform device depends on the native
> hardware device instead of the coreboot device anyway.
>
> When commit 851b4c14532d ("firmware: coreboot: Add coreboot framebuffer
> driver") added the coreboot framebuffer code, the kernel did not support
> device-based aperture management. Instead native driviers only removed
> the conflicting fbdev device. At that point, unregistering the framebuffer
> device most likely worked correctly. It was definitely broken after
> commit d9702b2a2171 ("fbdev/simplefb: Do not use struct
> fb_info.apertures"). So take this commit for the Fixes tag. Earlier
> releases might work depending on the native hardware driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Fixes: d9702b2a2171 ("fbdev/simplefb: Do not use struct fb_info.apertures")
Acked-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-26 8:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20260115082128.12460-1-tzimmermann@suse.de>
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not unregister platform device Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:28 ` Tzung-Bi Shih [this message]
2026-01-15 7:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not mark framebuffer as busy Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 8:28 ` Tzung-Bi Shih
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