[PATCH v4 5/6] drm/i915: use new drm_kick_out_firmware()

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 05:02:06 PDT 2013


Hi

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:36:51PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Use the new DRM infrastructure to kick out firmware DRM drivers before
>> loading i915.
>>
>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
>> index 3e4e607..9d375a6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
>> @@ -1414,9 +1414,9 @@ static void i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>>       primary =
>>               pdev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].flags & IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW;
>>
>> -     remove_conflicting_framebuffers(ap, "inteldrmfb", primary);
>> -
>> -     kfree(ap);
>> +     drm_kick_out_firmware(ap, primary);
>> +     dev_priv->dev->apertures = ap;
>> +     dev_priv->dev->apert_boot = primary;
>
> What about passing dev to drm_kick_out_firmware and shovelling these two
> assignments in there? I've check your nouveau/radeon patches and I think
> this would work ...

Yepp, that sounds reasonable. And I guess the kfree() of apertures can
also be done in drm_put_dev(). Maybe we can even to the whole stuff in
drm_pci.c, I will have a look.

Thanks
David


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