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On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on > x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global > "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which > drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but > unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards. > > Avoid this by creating a "platform-framebuffer" device with a pointer > to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create > platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being > active simultaneously. > > We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers > can be converted in follow-up patches. > > Apart from "platform-framebuffer" devices, this also introduces a > compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got > introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we > try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported > format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead > of a platform-framebuffer. > This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also > to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c, > efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks > in their setup-routines. > > Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and > provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if > strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded > simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices. > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig > +config X86_SYSFB > + bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" > + help > + Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, > + bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for > + user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS > + Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited > + to x86. However, a generic system-framebuffer initialization emerged > + recently on some non-x86 architectures. After this patch has been in the kernel a while, that very last won't really be true; simplefb won't have been introduced recently. Perhaps just delete that one sentence? > + This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic > + framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be > + used on x86. > + > + This breaks any x86-only driver like efifb, vesafb, uvesafb, which > + will not work if this is selected. Doesn't that imply that some form of conflicts or depends ! statement should be added here? > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile > +obj-y += sysfb.o I suspect that should be obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SYSFB) += sysfb.o. > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SYSFB Rather than ifdef'ing the body of this file, why not create a dummy static inline version of add_sysfb() and put that into a header file that users include. There should be a header file to prototype the function anyway. That way, you avoid all of the ifdefs and static inline functions in this file. > +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, > + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) > + strlcpy(mode->format, f->name, sizeof(mode->format)); Per my comments about the type of mode->format, I think that could just be: mode->format = f->name; ... since formats[] (i.e. f) isn't initdata. > +#else /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ > + > +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, > + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) > +{ > + return false; > +} > + > +static int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si, > + const struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) > +{ > + return -EINVAL; > +} > + > +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ Following on from my ifdef comment above, I believe those versions of those functions will always cause add_sysfb() to return -ENODEV, so you may as well provide a static inline for add_sysfb() instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Hi On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: > On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: >> The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on >> x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global >> "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which >> drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but >> unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards. >> >> Avoid this by creating a "platform-framebuffer" device with a pointer >> to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create >> platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being >> active simultaneously. >> >> We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers >> can be converted in follow-up patches. >> >> Apart from "platform-framebuffer" devices, this also introduces a >> compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got >> introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we >> try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported >> format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead >> of a platform-framebuffer. >> This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also >> to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c, >> efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks >> in their setup-routines. >> >> Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and >> provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if >> strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded >> simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices. > >> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig > >> +config X86_SYSFB >> + bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" >> + help >> + Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, >> + bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for >> + user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS >> + Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited >> + to x86. However, a generic system-framebuffer initialization emerged >> + recently on some non-x86 architectures. > > After this patch has been in the kernel a while, that very last won't > really be true; simplefb won't have been introduced recently. Perhaps > just delete that one sentence? It rather belongs in the commit message, right. I will rephrase that. >> + This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic >> + framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be >> + used on x86. >> + >> + This breaks any x86-only driver like efifb, vesafb, uvesafb, which >> + will not work if this is selected. > > Doesn't that imply that some form of conflicts or depends ! statement > should be added here? There is no real conflict here. You still can use vesafb/... with this option, but they will not pick up the device. I intend to fix these up to use "platform-framebuffer" devices instead of globally binding to "struct screen_info". This way, framebuffers either end up as simple-framebuffers or platform-framebuffers. This option selects which device they end up as. As all non-compatible framebuffers (with incompatible pixel-formats) always end up as "platform-framebuffer", it still makes sense to use vesafb as fallback. Hence, I'd not introduce any "conflicts" dependency here. Maybe I should rephrase the warning to something that makes clear that if this option is selected, you need simplefb.c or simpledrm to make use of these devices. >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile > >> +obj-y += sysfb.o > > I suspect that should be obj-$(CONFIG_X86_SYSFB) += sysfb.o. No. This patch tries to solve two things: First of all, every system-framebuffer now gets a "platform-framebuffer" platform-device. Iff X86_SYSFB is selected, it additionally tries to parse the framebuffer information as "simple-framebuffer". If it succeeds, it created a "simple-framebuffer" object, if it doesn't, a fallback "platform-framebuffer" is provided. This series is missing vesafb/efifb/.. patches, which should now bind to "platform-framebuffer" devices instead of using "struct screen_info" directly. I intend to add these in the next round. >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c > >> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SYSFB > > Rather than ifdef'ing the body of this file, why not create a dummy > static inline version of add_sysfb() and put that into a header file > that users include. There should be a header file to prototype the > function anyway. That way, you avoid all of the ifdefs and static inline > functions in this file. > >> +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, >> + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) > >> + strlcpy(mode->format, f->name, sizeof(mode->format)); > > Per my comments about the type of mode->format, I think that could just be: > > mode->format = f->name; > > ... since formats[] (i.e. f) isn't initdata. > >> +#else /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ >> + >> +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, >> + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) >> +{ >> + return false; >> +} >> + >> +static int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si, >> + const struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) >> +{ >> + return -EINVAL; >> +} >> + >> +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ > > Following on from my ifdef comment above, I believe those versions of > those functions will always cause add_sysfb() to return -ENODEV, so you > may as well provide a static inline for add_sysfb() instead. No. add_sysfb() is supposed to always succeed. However, if parse_mode/create_simplefb fail, it creates a "platform-framebuffer" as fallback. I don't see any way to avoid these ifdefs. Considering the explanation above, could you elaborate how you think this should work? Thanks David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
On 06/28/2013 04:11 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote: >> On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: >>> The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on >>> x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global >>> "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which >>> drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but >>> unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards. >>> >>> Avoid this by creating a "platform-framebuffer" device with a pointer >>> to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create >>> platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being >>> active simultaneously. >>> >>> We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers >>> can be converted in follow-up patches. >>> >>> Apart from "platform-framebuffer" devices, this also introduces a >>> compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got >>> introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we >>> try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported >>> format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead >>> of a platform-framebuffer. ... >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c ... >>> +#else /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ >>> + >>> +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, >>> + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) >>> +{ >>> + return false; >>> +} >>> + >>> +static int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si, >>> + const struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) >>> +{ >>> + return -EINVAL; >>> +} >>> + >>> +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ >> >> Following on from my ifdef comment above, I believe those versions of >> those functions will always cause add_sysfb() to return -ENODEV, so you >> may as well provide a static inline for add_sysfb() instead. > > No. add_sysfb() is supposed to always succeed. However, if > parse_mode/create_simplefb fail, it creates a "platform-framebuffer" > as fallback. I don't see any way to avoid these ifdefs. Considering > the explanation above, could you elaborate how you think this should > work? Ah, I wasn't getting the fallback mechanism; that if creating a simplefb wasn't possible or didn't succeed, a platformfb device would be created instead. Perhaps the following might be slightly clearer; there are certainly fewer nesting levels: static __init int add_sysfb(void) { const struct screen_info *si = &screen_info; struct simplefb_platform_data mode; struct platform_device *pd; bool compatible = false; int ret; compatible = parse_mode(si, &mode); if (compatible) { ret = create_simplefb(si, &mode); if (!ret) return 0; } pd = platform_device_register_resndata(NULL, "platform-framebuffer", 0, NULL, 0, si, sizeof(*si)); ret = IS_ERR(pd) ? PTR_ERR(pd) : 0; return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index fe120da..8eb06b5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2255,6 +2255,24 @@ config RAPIDIO source "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig" +config X86_SYSFB + bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" + help + Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, + bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for + user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS + Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited + to x86. However, a generic system-framebuffer initialization emerged + recently on some non-x86 architectures. + This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic + framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be + used on x86. + + This breaks any x86-only driver like efifb, vesafb, uvesafb, which + will not work if this is selected. + + If unsure, say N. + endmenu diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile index 7bd3bd3..1e1005a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION) += check.o obj-$(CONFIG_SWIOTLB) += pci-swiotlb.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF) += devicetree.o obj-$(CONFIG_UPROBES) += uprobes.o +obj-y += sysfb.o obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_regs.o diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8272958 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +/* + * Generic System Framebuffers on x86 + * Copyright (c) 2012-2013 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> + */ + +/* + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free + * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) + * any later version. + */ + +/* + * Simple-Framebuffer support for x86 systems + * Create a platform-device for any available boot framebuffer. The + * simple-framebuffer platform device is already available on DT systems, so + * this module parses the global "screen_info" object and creates a suitable + * platform device compatible with the "simple-framebuffer" DT object. If + * the framebuffer is incompatible, we instead create a "platform-framebuffer" + * device and pass the screen_info as platform_data. This allows legacy drivers + * to pick these devices up without messing with simple-framebuffer drivers. + * + * If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is not selected, we never register "simple-framebuffer" + * platform devices, but only use "platform-framebuffer" devices for + * backwards compatibility. + * + * TODO: We set the dev_id field of all platform-devices to 0. This allows + * other x86 OF/DT parsers to create such devices, too. However, they must + * start at offset 1 for this to work. + */ + +#include <linux/err.h> +#include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/platform_data/simplefb.h> +#include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/screen_info.h> + +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SYSFB + +static const char simplefb_resname[] = "BOOTFB"; + +static const struct simplefb_format formats[] = { + SIMPLEFB_FORMATS +}; + +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) +{ + const struct simplefb_format *f; + __u8 type; + unsigned int i; + + /* TODO: apply quirks from efifb.c here before probing the devices */ + + type = si->orig_video_isVGA; + if (type != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB && type != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI) + return false; + + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(formats); ++i) { + f = &formats[i]; + if (si->lfb_depth == f->bits_per_pixel && + si->red_size == f->red.length && + si->red_pos == f->red.offset && + si->green_size == f->green.length && + si->green_pos == f->green.offset && + si->blue_size == f->blue.length && + si->blue_pos == f->blue.offset && + si->rsvd_size == f->transp.length && + si->rsvd_pos == f->transp.offset) { + strlcpy(mode->format, f->name, sizeof(mode->format)); + mode->width = si->lfb_width; + mode->height = si->lfb_height; + mode->stride = si->lfb_linelength; + return true; + } + } + + return false; +} + +static int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si, + const struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) +{ + struct platform_device *pd; + struct resource memres; + unsigned long len; + + /* don't use lfb_size as it may contain the whole VMEM instead of only + * the part that is occupied by the framebuffer */ + len = mode->height * mode->stride; + len = PAGE_ALIGN(len); + if (len > si->lfb_size << 16) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfb: VRAM smaller than advertised\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + + /* setup IORESOURCE_MEM as framebuffer memory */ + memset(&memres, 0, sizeof(memres)); + memres.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM; + memres.name = simplefb_resname; + memres.start = si->lfb_base; + memres.end = si->lfb_base + len - 1; + if (memres.end <= memres.start) + return -EINVAL; + + pd = platform_device_register_resndata(NULL, + "simple-framebuffer", 0, + &memres, 1, + mode, sizeof(*mode)); + if (IS_ERR(pd)) + return PTR_ERR(pd); + + return 0; +} + +#else /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ + +static bool parse_mode(const struct screen_info *si, + struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) +{ + return false; +} + +static int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si, + const struct simplefb_platform_data *mode) +{ + return -EINVAL; +} + +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_SYSFB */ + +static __init int add_sysfb(void) +{ + const struct screen_info *si = &screen_info; + struct simplefb_platform_data mode; + struct platform_device *pd; + bool compatible = false; + int ret; + + compatible = parse_mode(si, &mode); + + ret = -ENODEV; + if (compatible) + ret = create_simplefb(si, &mode); + + if (ret) { + pd = platform_device_register_resndata(NULL, + "platform-framebuffer", 0, + NULL, 0, si, sizeof(*si)); + ret = IS_ERR(pd) ? PTR_ERR(pd) : 0; + } + + return ret; +} +device_initcall(add_sysfb);
The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but unfortunately vesafb/efifb ignore it due to quirks for broken boards. Avoid this by creating a "platform-framebuffer" device with a pointer to the "struct screen_info" as platform-data. Drivers can now create platform-drivers and the driver-core will refuse multiple drivers being active simultaneously. We keep the screen_info available for backwards-compatibility. Drivers can be converted in follow-up patches. Apart from "platform-framebuffer" devices, this also introduces a compatibility option for "simple-framebuffer" drivers which recently got introduced for OF based systems. If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is selected, we try to match the screen_info against a simple-framebuffer supported format. If we succeed, we create a "simple-framebuffer" device instead of a platform-framebuffer. This allows to reuse the simplefb.c driver across architectures and also to introduce a SimpleDRM driver. There is no need to have vesafb.c, efifb.c, simplefb.c and more just to have architecture specific quirks in their setup-routines. Instead, we now move the architecture specific quirks into x86-setup and provide a generic simple-framebuffer. For backwards-compatibility (if strange formats are used), we still allow vesafb/efifb to be loaded simultaneously and pick up all remaining devices. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 18 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 176 insertions(+) create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c