[PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:32:58AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 07:30, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:31:02PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > dOn Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:46 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The other advantage of staging is the I don't think syzbot enables it.
> > > > I guess it's easier to persuade Dmitry to ignore STAGING than it was to
> > > > get him to disable FBDEV.  :P
> > > >
> > > > The memory corruption in fbdev was a real headache for everyone because
> > > > the stack traces ended up all over the kernel.
> > >
> > > Uh Dmitry disabled all of FBDEV?
> >
> > No that's the opposite of what I meant.  STAGING is disabled in syzbot
> > and FBDEV is enabled.
> 
> Is there still any problem with syzbot config?
> syzbot configs are stored here:
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/tree/master/dashboard/config/linux

CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE are set, which are the things I
care about. The one exception is upstream-kcsan.config, which doesn't have
fbcon enabled.

Also looking through your fbdev drivers, really the only ones you want to
ever enable are:
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL=y

The following isn't enabled, but I guess if you don't have EFI doesn't
make sense, otherwise you really want it:
CONFIG_FB_EFI=y

The below are enabled in some configs and should be ditched
CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y (use CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM instead, at least on kernels that have it)
CONFIG_FB_I740=y (you don't have this hw or I'm blown away, this last shipped 20 years ago)
CONFIG_FB_UDL=y (use CONFIG_DRM_UDL instead)
CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y (does modesets by calling into a userspace helper to run x86 vbios code, just don't)
CONFIG_FB_SMSCUFX=y (if you really have these then someone should port this to drm asap)
CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS=y (use CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU instead since I'm pretty sure you don't have a real cirrus pci card)

Also note that the simpledrm driver will eat all the firmware fbdev
drivers and unload them. So you need to run two configs to really cover
both sets of drivers in all cases.

Cheers, Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch