Re: [PATCH V11 09/22] LoongArch: Add boot and setup routines

[Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>]

Hi, Javier,

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 5:41 PM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Ard and Huacai,
>
> On 5/20/22 11:17, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >> +
> >> +static int __init register_gop_device(void)
> >> +{
> >> +       void *pd;
> >> +
> >> +       if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI)
> >> +               return 0;
> >> +       pd = platform_device_register_data(NULL, "efi-framebuffer", 0,
> >> +                       &screen_info, sizeof(screen_info));
> >> +       return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(pd);
> >> +}
> >> +subsys_initcall(register_gop_device);
> >
> > Not sure this is now the correct way to do this - cc'ing Javier.
> >
>
> Is not the correct way to do it indeed, that can just be dropped.
>
> We have unified now all the system framebuffer platform device
> registration under drivers/firmware/sysfb.c (and the EFI quirks
> if needed under drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c).
>
> So the only thing that a platform should do, is to enable the
> the CONFIG_SYSFB config option. The screen_info should be set
> correctly from the EFI GOP, but it seems that's already working
> since you were already using it in register_gop_device().
>
> But also, the "efi-framebuffer" platform device matches against
> the legacy efifb fbdev driver. And now there's a simpledrm driver
> that is also able to use the firmware-provided framebuffer.
>
> You can enable that driver with CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM.
>
> That driver though doesn't match against "efi-framebuffer" but with
> a "simple-framebuffer", to make sysfb register that instead of the
> "efi-framebuffer" device, you need to set CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB too.
>
> If for some reasons you need to provide a fbdev interface to the
> user-space, you can enable CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION to have that.
>
> In summary, just enable the following to use the firmware framebuffer:
>
> CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=y
> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
> CONFIG_SYSFB=y
> CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y
Thank you very much, since 5.15 sysfb_init() do all things of
register_gop_device(), so register_gop_device() here can be removed.
But there is another small problem: if simpledrm or efifb driver is
built-in, there is no display. The reason is both sysfb_init() and
display driver are in the same initcall level (device_initcall()).
From the comments I know that sysfb_init() should after PCI
enumeration which is in subsys_initcall(), so, could we make
sysfb_init() to be a subsys_initcall_sync()?

Huacai
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Javier Martinez Canillas
> Linux Engineering
> Red Hat
>