linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] vgaarb: Rework default VGA device selection

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:59:09 -0600
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] vgaarb: Rework default VGA device selection

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:46:33PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Op 31-01-2022 om 23:23 schreef Bjorn Helgaas:
> > [+to Maarten, Maxime, Thomas; beginning of thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106000658.243509-1-helgaas@kernel.org]
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:06:48PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> >>
> >> Current default VGA device selection fails in some cases because part of it
> >> is done in the vga_arb_device_init() subsys_initcall, and some arches
> >> enumerate PCI devices in pcibios_init(), which runs *after* that.
> > Where are we at with this series?  Is there anything I can do to move
> > it forward?
> 
> I'm afraid that I don't understand the vga arbiter or the vga code
> well enough to review.
> 
> Could you perhaps find someone who could review?
> 
> I see Chen wrote some patches and tested, so perhaps they could?

Huacai, any chance you could review this?  I'm worried that this
series isn't going to go anywhere unless we can find somebody to
review it.

Bjorn