Re: [PATCH v2] drm/rockchip: remove existing generic drivers to take over the device

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 8:48 AM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are drivers that register framebuffer devices very early in the boot
> process and make use of the existing framebuffer as setup by the firmware.
>
> If one of those drivers has registered a fbdev, then the fallback fbdev of
> the DRM driver won't be bound to the framebuffer console. To avoid that,
> remove any existing generic driver and take over the graphics device.
>
> By doing that, the fb mapped to the console is switched correctly from the
> early fbdev to the one registered by the rockchip DRM driver:
>
>     [   40.752420] fb0: switching to rockchip-drm-fb from EFI VGA
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested on Pinebook Pro (eDP), Rock960 (HDMI) and Firefly3399.

> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Move drm_aperture_remove_framebuffers() call to .bind callback (tzimmermann).
> - Adapt subject line, commit message, etc accordingly.
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> index 212bd87c0c4..b730b8d5d94 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include <linux/console.h>
>  #include <linux/iommu.h>
>
> +#include <drm/drm_aperture.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_fb_helper.h>
>  #include <drm/drm_gem_cma_helper.h>
> @@ -114,6 +115,15 @@ static int rockchip_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
>         struct rockchip_drm_private *private;
>         int ret;
>
> +       /* Remove existing drivers that may own the framebuffer memory. */
> +       ret = drm_aperture_remove_framebuffers(false, "rockchip-drm-fb");
> +       if (ret) {
> +               DRM_DEV_ERROR(dev,
> +                             "Failed to remove existing framebuffers - %d.\n",
> +                             ret);
> +               return ret;
> +       }
> +
>         drm_dev = drm_dev_alloc(&rockchip_drm_driver, dev);
>         if (IS_ERR(drm_dev))
>                 return PTR_ERR(drm_dev);
> --
> 2.31.1
>