picking efifb driver over dri driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Christopher Harvey <charvey at matrox.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for the mechanism in the kernel that makes the decision to
> load the efifb driver over a dri one. Any tips? I've got a machine here
> that loads efifb and prevents dri drivers from loading.

Once the drm driver loads it should kick out any firmware framebuffer
driver (like the efifb). See e.g. i915_kick_out_firmware_fb in
drm/i915_dma.c Ignoring the occasional deadlock in the fbcon layer,
this works.

Cheers, Daniel
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