[RFC,drm-misc-next v4 3/9] drm/radeon: Implement .be_primary() callback
Christian König
christian.koenig at amd.com
Tue Sep 5 05:50:59 UTC 2023
Am 04.09.23 um 21:57 schrieb Sui Jingfeng:
> From: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng at loongson.cn>
>
> On a machine with multiple GPUs, a Linux user has no control over which one
> is primary at boot time.
Question is why is that useful? Should we give users the ability to
control that?
I don't see an use case for this.
Regards,
Christian.
> This patch tries to solve the mentioned problem by
> implementing the .be_primary() callback. Pass radeon.modeset=10 on the
> kernel cmd line if you really want the device bound by radeon to be the
> primary video adapter, no matter what VGAARB say.
>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng at loongson.cn>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> index 71f2ff39d6a1..b661cd3a8dc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
> @@ -1263,6 +1263,14 @@ static const struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops radeon_switcheroo_ops = {
> .can_switch = radeon_switcheroo_can_switch,
> };
>
> +static bool radeon_want_to_be_primary(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> + if (radeon_modeset == 10)
> + return true;
> +
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * radeon_device_init - initialize the driver
> *
> @@ -1425,7 +1433,7 @@ int radeon_device_init(struct radeon_device *rdev,
> /* if we have > 1 VGA cards, then disable the radeon VGA resources */
> /* this will fail for cards that aren't VGA class devices, just
> * ignore it */
> - vga_client_register(rdev->pdev, radeon_vga_set_decode, NULL);
> + vga_client_register(rdev->pdev, radeon_vga_set_decode, radeon_want_to_be_primary);
>
> if (rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_PX)
> runtime = true;
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