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author | Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> | 2024-09-16 13:00:26 +0200 |
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committer | Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org> | 2024-09-30 01:40:51 +0000 |
commit | 67f488dff17e535ac3a8a52b47ff1363d8134983 (patch) | |
tree | e22d2056781e459eff41ceecae15ac2165962fe5 | |
parent | 6074e905023d09f64f2c896f475820a5623deb2c (diff) | |
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firmware: coreboot: Don't register a pdev if screen_info data is present
On coreboot platforms, a system framebuffer may be provided to the Linux
kernel by filling a LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry in the coreboot table. But
a coreboot payload (e.g: SeaBIOS) could also provide its own framebuffer
information to the Linux kernel.
If that's the case, arch x86 boot code will fill the global screen_info
data and this used by the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) framework,
to register a platform device with pdata about the system's framebuffer.
But later, the framebuffer_coreboot driver will try to do the same and
attempt to register a "simple-framebuffer" platform device (using the
information from the coreboot table), which will lead to an error due a
device with the same name already being registered:
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/simple-framebuffer.0'
...
coreboot: could not register framebuffer
framebuffer coreboot8: probe with driver framebuffer failed with error -17
To prevent this issue, make the framebuffer_core driver to not register
a platform device if the global struct screen_info data has been filled.
Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZuCG-DggNThuF4pj@b20ea791c01f/T/#ma7fb65acbc1a56042258adac910992bb225a20d2
Suggested-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240916110040.1688511-3-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c b/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c index daadd71d8ddd..c68c9f56370f 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/platform_data/simplefb.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/sysfb.h> #include "coreboot_table.h" @@ -36,6 +37,19 @@ static int framebuffer_probe(struct coreboot_device *dev) .format = NULL, }; + /* + * On coreboot systems, the advertised LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry + * in the coreboot table should only be used if the payload did + * not pass a framebuffer information to the Linux kernel. + * + * If the global screen_info data has been filled, the Generic + * System Framebuffers (sysfb) will already register a platform + * device and pass that screen_info as platform_data to a driver + * that can scan-out using the system provided framebuffer. + */ + if (sysfb_handles_screen_info()) + return -ENODEV; + if (!fb->physical_address) return -ENODEV; |