DRM framebuffer removal broken since 13803132

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Wed Mar 16 10:21:52 UTC 2016


On 03/16/2016 11:17 AM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Op 16-03-16 om 09:34 schreef Thomas Hellstrom:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The commit
>>
>> From 13803132818cf8084d169617be060fd8e3411a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:40:56 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] drm/core: Preserve the framebuffer after removing it.
>>
>> badly breaks vmwgfx multimon since the crtcs are no longer turned off at
>> framebuffer removal,
>> which is part of the user-space contract.
> Is this about rmfb or lastclose?
>
> Lastclose is handled by kms fbdev emulation, rmfb behavioral change was intentional, but can be reverted.

OK, this is about rmfb.

/Thomas



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