[PATCH 5/8] video/aperture: Move vga handling to pci function

Javier Martinez Canillas javierm at redhat.com
Wed Apr 5 11:34:01 UTC 2023


Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> writes:

> A few reasons for this:
>
> - It's really the only one where this matters. I tried looking around,
>   and I didn't find any non-pci vga-compatible controllers for x86
>   (since that's the only platform where we had this until a few
>   patches ago), where a driver participating in the aperture claim
>   dance would interfere.
>
> - I also don't expect that any future bus anytime soon will
>   not just look like pci towards the OS, that's been the case for like
>   25+ years by now for practically everything (even non non-x86).
>
> - Also it's a bit funny if we have one part of the vga removal in the
>   pci function, and the other in the generic one.
>
> v2: Rebase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
> Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/video/aperture.c | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat



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