[RFC 4/6] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jun 26 13:59:28 PDT 2013


On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Create a simple fbdev device during SimpleDRM setup so legacy user-space
> and fbcon can use it.
> 
> fbdev deletion is quite buggy. A unregister_framebuffer() call followed by
> a printk() causes NULL-derefs in hide_cursor() and other places in the VT
> layer. Hence, we leak the fbdev device currently to make the VT layer
> happy. This needs to be fixed soon! Otherwise, we need a "depends !VT"
> line for SimpleDRM.

> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile

>  simpledrm-y := simpledrm_drv.o simpledrm_main.o simpledrm_mem.o
>  
> +ifdef CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV
> +	simpledrm-y += simpledrm_fbdev.o
> +endif

I think that's:

+ simpledrm-$(CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV) += simpledrm_fbdev.o



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