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

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Thomas,

On 5/16/21 12:30 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 16.05.21 um 09:48 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>> 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
>

Thanks for the ack.
 
> Ping me if no one else merges the patch.
>

I would really appreciate if you merge this patch.
 
> Best regards
> Thomas

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer
New Platform Technologies Enablement team
RHEL Engineering