Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] fbdev: Disable sysfb device registration when removing conflicting FBs

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Jul 04 2022 - 08:22:54 EST


On 7/4/22 14:11, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 13:04 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Xi,
>>>
>>> With CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB and CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE enabled, there is no
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> I guess it's something going wrong on a "drm -> drm" pass over.  For now
>>> I'll continue to use simpledrm with this commit reverted.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, we need to also cherry-pick b84efa28a48 ("drm/aperture: Run fbdev
>> removal before internal helpers") now that the sysfb_disable() patches
>> are in v5.19-rc5.
>
> I confirm that cherry-picking b84efa28a48 fixes the issue for v5.19-rc5.
>

Thanks for testing it! Thomas is getting that patch through the drm-fixes
path, so it should make it to the v5.19-rc cycle at some point.

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat