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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2009-06-16 15:34:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 19:48:00 -0700
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tree814e1823cf773d8911b946df780faaec5c89d593 /Documentation/initrd.txt
parentb586640141ab5f4ab3b194419bc2c0f039e91dbc (diff)
fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
With KMS we have ran into an issue where we really want the KMS fb driver to be the one running the console, so panics etc can be shown by switching out of X etc. However with vesafb/efifb built-in, we end up with those on fb0 and the KMS fb driver on fb1, driving the same piece of hw, so this adds an fb info flag to denote a firmware fbdev, and adds a new aperture base/size range which can be compared when the hw drivers are installed to see if there is a conflict with a firmware driver, and if there is the firmware driver is unregistered and the hw driver takes over. It uses new aperture_base/size members instead of comparing on the fix smem_start/length, as smem_start/length might for example only cover the first 1MB of the PCI aperture, and we could allocate the kms fb from 8MB into the aperture, thus they would never overlap. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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