The hardware for gma500 is different from the rest, as it uses stolen
framebuffer memory that is not available via PCI BAR. The regular PCI
removal helper cannot detect the framebuffer, while the non-PCI helper
misses possible conflicting VGA devices (i.e., a framebuffer or text
console).
Gma500 therefore calls both helpers to catch all cases. It's confusing
as it implies that there's something about the PCI device that requires
ownership management. The relationship between the PCI device and the
VGA devices is non-obvious. At worst, readers might assume that calling
two functions for clearing aperture ownership is a bug in the driver.
Hence, move the PCI removal helper's code for VGA functionality into
a separate function and call this function from gma500. Documents the
purpose of each call to aperture helpers. The change contains comments
and example code form the discussion at [1].
v5:
* fix grammar in gma500 comment (Javier)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/patch/20230404201842.567344-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch/ # 1
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230406132109.32050-10-tzimmermann@suse.de
With the preceding patches it's become defunct. Also I'm about to add
a different boolean argument, so it's better to keep the confusion
down to the absolute minimum.
v2: Since the hypervfb patch got droppped (it's only a pci device for
gen1 vm, not for gen2) there is one leftover user in an actual driver
left to touch.
v4:
- fixes to commit message
- fix Daniel's S-o-b address
v5:
- add back an S-o-b tag with Daniel's Intel address
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230406132109.32050-7-tzimmermann@suse.de
Implement DRM's aperture helpers under video/ for sharing with other
sub-systems. Remove DRM-isms from the interface. The helpers track
the ownership of framebuffer apertures and provide hand-over from
firmware, such as EFI and VESA, to native graphics drivers.
Other subsystems, such as fbdev and vfio, also have to maintain ownership
of framebuffer apertures. Moving DRM's aperture helpers to a more public
location allows all subsystems to interact with each other and share a
common implementation.
The aperture helpers are selected by the various firmware drivers within
DRM and fbdev, and the VGA text-console driver.
The original DRM interface is kept in place for use by DRM drivers.
v3:
* prefix all interfaces with aperture_ (Javier)
* rework and simplify documentation (Javier)
* rename struct dev_aperture to struct aperture_range
* rebase onto latest DRM
* update MAINTAINERS entry
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220622140134.12763-3-tzimmermann@suse.de
