[PATCH 2/2] drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Fri May 21 22:14:25 PDT 2021


Hi

Am 21.05.21 um 21:37 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> The register_gop_device() function registers an "efi-framebuffer" platform
> device to match against the efifb driver, to have an early framebuffer for
> EFI platforms.
> 
> But the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) already has support for this.
> 
> Instead of having duplicated logic for x86 and other architectures using
> EFI, consolidate the two in sysfb and remove it from the EFI init logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
>   arch/arm/Kconfig                  |  1 +
>   arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h        |  5 +-
>   arch/arm64/Kconfig                |  1 +
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h      |  5 +-
>   arch/riscv/Kconfig                |  1 +
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h      |  5 +-
>   drivers/firmware/Kconfig          |  7 ++-
>   drivers/firmware/Makefile         |  2 +-
>   drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c   | 90 -------------------------------
>   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c  | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/firmware/sysfb.c          | 40 +++++++++-----
>   drivers/firmware/sysfb_simplefb.c | 29 ++++++----
>   include/linux/sysfb.h             | 28 +++++-----
>   13 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 24804f11302..30ba195ca72 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ config ARM
>   	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
>   	select RTC_LIB
>   	select SET_FS
> +	select SYSFB

Don't select this as part of the architecture. Rather make an option for 
SYSFB that depends in the architectures that supports it.

Best regards
Thomas


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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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