[PATCH v3 3/3] drm/tiny: ili9486: remove conflicting framebuffers
Carlo Caione
ccaione at baylibre.com
Tue Dec 6 05:00:51 PST 2022
On 06/12/2022 10:52, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Conflicting framebuffer on the SPI display ? How is that possible ?
>
> Calling drm_aperture_remove_framebuffers() is only required if the
> graphics card may have been pre-initialized by the system, such as a
> VGA-compatible card on a PC.
>
> Could the SPI display have been initialized by the firmware? If not, the
> call should be left out.
What's happening on this board is that the builtin simpledrm driver is
creating fb0 backed by the framebuffer prepared by u-boot / grub, and
this the framebuffer being used by fbcon at early boot.
When the ILI9486 DRM driver is probed later during boot a second
framebuffer is created (fb1) and when fb0 is destroyed, fbcon still
remains attached to a non-existent framebuffer, so the user is left in
the dark.
What this patch is doing is that when the ILI driver is probed, fb0 is
destroyed and a new DRM-backed fb0 is created by the ILI DRM driver that
can be used by fbcon, so the user can correctly see the console on the
SPI display.
Cheers,
--
Carlo Caione
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