Hi,
On 07/13/2015 09:07 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:30:34AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Archit Taneja architt@codeaurora.org wrote:
With the top level DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION option, drivers don't need to select DRM_FB_KMS_HELPER or other FB related config options in the driver.
Even if FBDEV_EMULATION isn't select, the stubbed out versions of the drm_fb_helper functions will be called.
There are some drivers which still need some FB stuff even after these changes. They are qxl, udl and nouveau. These are handled a bit differently compared to the other patches.
Series is: Acked-by: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com
Archit for merging I think I'll just keep the current set of patches I have for testing (well until there's a real bug discovered). Can you please collect all the acks/r-bs/t-d when resending so I don't have to digg them out when we merge the final versions of these?
Sure. I'll keep a track of this.
Speaking of bugs, there was one thing I noticed in the series which I am not sure about.
One of the new helpers wraps around framebuffer_alloc(). Most drivers tend to pass the drm_device's dev pointer to this, and this is what I do in the helper too.
But some drivers(nouveau, radeon, qxl and some more) pass their pci_dev's dev pointer.
Looking at the framebuffer code, it looks like the 'dev' we pass to framebuffer_alloc is what is used as the parent device when creating a fb device.
After this patch set, all drivers will use drm_device's dev when calling framebuffer_alloc. I was wondering if this could cause any fbcon issues?
Archit