Re: [PATCH v3] x86: sysfb: remove sysfb when probing real hw

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 13:55:32 EST



* Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/19/2013 03:13 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> > With CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y, probing real hw-drivers may result in
> > resource-conflicts and drivers will refuse to load. A call to
> > request_mem_region() will fail, if the region overlaps with the mem-region
> > used by simplefb. The common desktop DRM drivers (intel, nouveau, radeon)
> > are not affected as they don't reserve their resources, but some others
> > do, including (nvidiafb, cirrus, ..).
>
> I have validated that this doesn't cause any regressions on the/a
> non-x86 platform using simplefb, although given the main point of this
> patch is to fix issues on x86, I'm rather hesitant to give a tested-by
> tag in case someone looking back interprets it incorrectly:-)

Tested-on-ARM-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,

Ingo
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