Hi all,
So I've taken a look again at the locking mess in our fbdev support and cried. Fixing up the console_lock mess around the fbdev notifier will be real work, semanatically the fbdev layer does lots of stupid things (like the radeon resume issue I've just debugged) and the panic notifier is pretty much a lost cause.
So I've decided to instead rip it all out. It seems to work \o/
Of course a general purpose distro propably wants David's kmscon for any fallbacks needs and a system compositor to ditch the VT subsystem - atm my machine here runs with the dummy console so that VT switching between different X sessions still works ;-)
Oh and: At least fedora's boot splash seems to be unhappy about the lack of an fbdev (it doesn't seem to do anything), which breaks early disk encryption a bit. The black screen itself shouldn't be a big issue at least for i915, since with all the fastboot work we can just hang onto the current config and framebuffer (one missing patch from Chris for the fb preservartion). So as long as the bios/grub put up something nice, it'll look ok.
So just a small step here really, but imo into the right direction. Now, please bring on the flames!
Aside: We can hide the #ifdef mess a bit better in drm/i915 I think, but I'd like to wait for a bit of feedback first. And one more: This also removes the console_lock completely from our critical path in suspend/resume!
One thing I haven't wasted a single thought about is kgdb and panic notifier support. But since the current code is pretty decently broken already (we have _tons_ of mutex grabbing and waits in there) I don't think people care that much about it anyway. Using a sprite to smash the kgdb/panic output on top of whatever's currently displaying might be an approach.
Cheers, Daniel
Daniel Vetter (3): drm: Add separate Kconfig option for fbdev helpers drm/i915: Kconfig option to disable the legacy fbdev support drm/i915: rename intel_fb.c to intel_fbdev.c
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 57 ++----- drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig | 56 +++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h | 39 ++++- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c | 314 ----------------------------------- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c | 314 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/udl/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/host1x/drm/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/staging/imx-drm/Kconfig | 1 + 24 files changed, 452 insertions(+), 373 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c