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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>,
	Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/aperture: Add param to disable conflicting framebuffers removal
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:12:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXMNOfBS5iFenmx8@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211022144040.3418284-1-javierm@redhat.com>

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 04:40:40PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The simpledrm driver allows to use the frame buffer that was set-up by the
> firmware. This gives early video output before the platform DRM driver is
> probed and takes over.
> 
> But it would be useful to have a way to disable this take over by the real
> DRM drivers. For example, there may be bugs in the DRM drivers that could
> cause the display output to not work correctly.
> 
> For those cases, it would be good to keep the simpledrm driver instead and
> at least get a working display as set-up by the firmware.
> 
> Let's add a drm.remove_fb boolean kernel command line parameter, that when
> set to false will prevent the conflicting framebuffers to being removed.
> 
> Since the drivers call drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_framebuffers() very
> early in their probe callback, this will cause the drivers' probe to fail.

Why is that better than just modprobe.blacklisting those drivers?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-22 14:40 [RFC PATCH] drm/aperture: Add param to disable conflicting framebuffers removal Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-10-22 14:56 ` Neal Gompa
2021-10-22 15:16   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-10-22 15:18     ` Neal Gompa
2021-10-22 19:05 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-10-24 20:40   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-10-24 20:43     ` Neal Gompa
2021-10-22 19:12 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2021-10-24 20:32   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-10-25 10:45     ` Michel Dänzer
2021-10-25 12:28       ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-10-25 12:36         ` Neal Gompa
2021-10-25 13:24         ` Michel Dänzer

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