From patchwork Fri Jul 5 09:26:12 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Zimmermann X-Patchwork-Id: 11032273 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9047D14C0 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E41C28A77 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 7144F28A7D; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 301ED28A77 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28AE66E45B; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Delivered-To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88A366E451 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826AFAF3E; Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:26:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Thomas Zimmermann To: airlied@redhat.com, daniel@ffwll.ch, kraxel@redhat.com, maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, maxime.ripard@bootlin.com, sean@poorly.run, noralf@tronnes.org, sam@ravnborg.org, yc_chen@aspeedtech.com Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] drm/bochs: Use shadow buffer for bochs framebuffer console Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 11:26:12 +0200 Message-Id: <20190705092613.7621-6-tzimmermann@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 In-Reply-To: <20190705092613.7621-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> References: <20190705092613.7621-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Thomas Zimmermann , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP The bochs driver (and virtual hardware) requires buffer objects to reside in video ram to display them to the screen. So it can not display the framebuffer console because the respective buffer object is permanently pinned in system memory. Using a shadow buffer for the console solves this problem. The console emulation will pin the buffer object only during updates from the shadow buffer. Otherwise, the bochs driver can freely relocated the buffer between system memory and video ram. v2: * select shadow FB via struct drm_mode_config.prefer_shadow_fbdev Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes --- drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_kms.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_kms.c index bc19dbd531ef..359030d5d818 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_kms.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bochs/bochs_kms.c @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ int bochs_kms_init(struct bochs_device *bochs) bochs->dev->mode_config.fb_base = bochs->fb_base; bochs->dev->mode_config.preferred_depth = 24; bochs->dev->mode_config.prefer_shadow = 0; + bochs->dev->mode_config.prefer_shadow_fbdev = 1; bochs->dev->mode_config.quirk_addfb_prefer_host_byte_order = true; bochs->dev->mode_config.funcs = &bochs_mode_funcs;