lwn.git/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c, branch v6.2-rc1

fbdev: Add support for the nomodeset kernel parameter

2022-11-16T12:26:25+00:00

Support the kernel's nomodeset parameter for all PCI-based fbdev drivers that use aperture helpers to remove other, hardware-agnostic graphics drivers. The parameter is a simple way of using the firmware-provided scanout buffer if the hardware's native driver is broken. The same effect could be achieved with per-driver options, but the importance of the graphics output for many users makes a single, unified approach worthwhile. With nomodeset specified, the fbdev driver module will not load. This unifies behavior with similar DRM drivers. In DRM helpers, modules first check the nomodeset parameter before registering the PCI driver. As fbdev has no such module helpers, we have to modify each driver individually. The name 'nomodeset' is slightly misleading, but has been chosen for historical reasons. Several drivers implemented it before it became a general option for DRM. So keeping the existing name was preferred over introducing a new one. v2: * print a warning if a driver does not init (Helge) * wrap video_firmware_drivers_only() in helper Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221111133024.9897-3-tzimmermann@suse.de

fbdev: Remove conflicting devices on PCI bus

2022-07-19T11:19:11+00:00

Remove firmware devices on the PCI bus, by calling aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() in the probe function of each related fbdev driver. iSo far, most of these drivers did not remove conflicting VESA or EFI devices, or outride failed for resource conflicts (i.e., matroxfb.) This must have been broken for quite some time. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220718072322.8927-7-tzimmermann@suse.de

fbdev: Remove trailing whitespaces

2022-07-19T11:19:11+00:00

Fix coding style. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220718072322.8927-2-tzimmermann@suse.de

video: imsttfb: check for ioremap() failures

2021-05-13T16:58:39+00:00

We should check if ioremap() were to somehow fail in imsttfb_probe() and handle the unwinding of the resources allocated here properly. Ideally if anyone cares about this driver (it's for a PowerMac era PCI display card), they wouldn't even be using fbdev anymore. Or the devm_* apis could be used, but that's just extra work for diminishing returns... Cc: Finn Thain Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reviewed-by: Rob Herring Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-68-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"

2021-05-13T16:58:38+00:00

This reverts commit 1d84353d205a953e2381044953b7fa31c8c9702d. Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not. Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change. The original commit here, while technically correct, did not fully handle all of the reported issues that the commit stated it was fixing, so revert it until it can be "fixed" fully. Note, ioremap() probably will never fail for old hardware like this, and if anyone actually used this hardware (a PowerMac era PCI display card), they would not be using fbdev anymore. Cc: Kangjie Lu Cc: Aditya Pakki Cc: Finn Thain Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reviewed-by: Rob Herring Fixes: 1d84353d205a ("video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences") Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-67-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

video: constify fb ops across all drivers

2019-12-05T08:57:53+00:00

Now that the fbops member of struct fb_info is const, we can start making the ops const as well. This does not cover all drivers; some actually modify the fbops struct, for example to adjust for different configurations, and others do more involved things that I'd rather not touch in practically obsolete drivers. Mostly this is the low hanging fruit where we can add "const" and be done with it. v3: - un-constify atyfb, mb862xx, nvidia and uvesabf (0day) v2: - fix typo (Christophe de Dinechin) - use "static const" instead of "const static" in mx3fb.c - also constify smscufx.c Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/ce67f14435f3af498f2e8bf35ce4be11f7504132.1575390740.git.jani.nikula@intel.com

video: fbdev: don't print error message on framebuffer_alloc() failure

2019-06-28T10:30:08+00:00

framebuffer_alloc() can fail only on kzalloc() memory allocation failure and since kzalloc() will print error message in such case we can omit printing extra error message in drivers (which BTW is what the majority of framebuffer_alloc() users is doing already). Cc: "Bruno Prémont" Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Benjamin Tissoires Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences

2019-04-01T15:46:58+00:00

In case ioremap fails, the fix releases resources and returns -ENOMEM to avoid NULL pointer dereferences. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu Cc: Aditya Pakki Cc: Finn Thain Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [b.zolnierkie: minor patch summary fixup] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Merge tag 'fbdev-v5.1' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux

2019-03-15T21:22:59+00:00

Pull fbdev updates from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: "Just a couple of small fixes and cleanups: - fix memory access if logo is bigger than the screen (Manfred Schlaegl) - silence fbcon logo on 'quiet' boots (Prarit Bhargava) - use kvmalloc() for scrollback buffer in fbcon (Konstantin Khorenko) - misc fixes (Colin Ian King, YueHaibing, Matteo Croce, Mathieu Malaterre, Anders Roxell, Arnd Bergmann) - misc cleanups (Rob Herring, Lubomir Rintel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jani Nikula, Michal Vokáč)" * tag 'fbdev-v5.1' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux: fbdev: mbx: fix a misspelled variable name fbdev: omap2: fix warnings in dss core video: fbdev: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference fbcon: Silence fbcon logo on 'quiet' boots printk: Export console_printk ARM: dts: imx28-cfa10036: Fix the reset gpio signal polarity video: ssd1307fb: Do not hard code active-low reset sequence dt-bindings: display: ssd1307fb: Remove reset-active-low from examples fbdev: fbmem: fix memory access if logo is bigger than the screen video/fbdev: refactor video= cmdline parsing fbdev: mbx: fix up debugfs file creation fbdev: omap2: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions video: fbdev: geode: remove ifdef OLPC noise video: offb: annotate implicit fall throughs omapfb: fix typo fbdev: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons fbcon: use kvmalloc() for scrollback buffer fbdev: chipsfb: remove set but not used variable 'size' fbdev/via: fix spelling mistake "Expandsion" -> "Expansion"

fbdev: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons

2019-02-08T18:24:45+00:00

Convert string compares of DT node names to use of_node_name_eq helper instead. This removes direct access to the node name pointer. For instances using of_node_cmp, this has the side effect of now using case sensitive comparisons. This should not matter for any FDT based system which omap is. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz