Re: [PATCH 00/11] SimpleDRM & Sysfb

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:18:51PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:14 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Another round of SimpleDRM patches. I somehow lost track of the last ones and as
> > this is a major rewrite, I'll just start at v1 again.
> >
> > Some comments up-front:
> >
> >  - @Ingo: Patch #1 and #2 are unchanged from the previous ML discussions. I
> >    included them in this series as the other patches depend on them. Could you
> >    pick them up for the x86 tree? The other 9 patches won't make it in 3.14 so
> >    no reason to put them through the DRM tree.
> >    All mentioned issues should be addressed. If there's still sth missing,
> >    please let me know.
> >
> >  - The DRM patches depend on my "DRM Anonymous Inode" patches. But it should be
> >    trivial to apply them on drm-next (I think only one line needs to be changed:
> >    i_mapping => dev_mapping).
> >
> >  - I tested the SimpleDRM fbdev fallback with linux-console+Xorg and it works
> >    fine. The DRM backend is only tested with some DRM tests I have locally. I
> >    have no idea how to make Xorg pick up a specific /dev/dri/card0 card. It
> >    always tells me "no screens found" (as the underlying device is not marked as
> >    boot_vga..). If someone knows how to tell Xorg to use card0, I'd gladly test
> >    this. But I'm no longer used to writing xorg.confs..
> 
> For completeness, I tested this with Xorg+xf86-video-modesetting and
> it works just fine. The xorg.conf I used can be found below. If this
> driver gets upstreamed, I will try to make the X11 auto-loader detect
> it just like any other platform-device.

I recently posted patches[0] to the xorg-devel mailing list that I think
should solve that issue.

Thierry

[0]: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-February/040568.html

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