linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/6] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:14:59 +0200
From:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/6] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support

Hi

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Create a simple fbdev device during SimpleDRM setup so legacy user-space
>> and fbcon can use it.
>>
>> fbdev deletion is quite buggy. A unregister_framebuffer() call followed by
>> a printk() causes NULL-derefs in hide_cursor() and other places in the VT
>> layer. Hence, we leak the fbdev device currently to make the VT layer
>> happy. This needs to be fixed soon! Otherwise, we need a "depends !VT"
>> line for SimpleDRM.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm/Makefile
>
>>  simpledrm-y := simpledrm_drv.o simpledrm_main.o simpledrm_mem.o
>>
>> +ifdef CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV
>> +     simpledrm-y += simpledrm_fbdev.o
>> +endif
>
> I think that's:
>
> + simpledrm-$(CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV) += simpledrm_fbdev.o

Ugh, I got errors trying that because SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV is a boolean but
SIMPLEDRM is a tristate. But I guess I tried:
obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV) += simpledrm_fbdev.o
which obviously fails if SIMPLEDRM=m and SIMPLEDRM_FBDEV=y. I will try
to fix that.

Thanks
David
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