[PATCH] Fix loading of module radeonfb on PowerMac

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Sat Oct 8 23:09:00 AEDT 2016


When the linux kernel is build with (typical kernel ship with Debian
installer):

CONFIG_FB_OF=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m

The offb driver takes precedence over module radeonfb. It is then
impossible to load the module, error reported is:

[   96.551486] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
[   96.551526] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: BAR 0: can't reserve [mem 0x98000000-0x9fffffff pref]
[   96.551531] radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): cannot request region 0.
[   96.551545] radeonfb: probe of 0000:00:10.0 failed with error -16

This patch reproduce the behavior of the module radeon, so as to make it
possible to load radeonfb when offb is first loaded.

It should be noticed that `offb_destroy` is never called which explain the
need to skip error detection on the radeon side.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/826629#57
Suggested-by: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_base.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_base.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_base.c
index 218339a..6f9bacd 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_base.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_base.c
@@ -2259,6 +2259,22 @@ static struct bin_attribute edid2_attr = {
 	.read	= radeon_show_edid2,
 };
 
+static int radeon_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+	struct apertures_struct *ap;
+
+	ap = alloc_apertures(1);
+	if (!ap)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ap->ranges[0].base = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
+	ap->ranges[0].size = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
+
+	remove_conflicting_framebuffers(ap, KBUILD_MODNAME, false);
+	kfree(ap);
+
+	return 0;
+}
 
 static int radeonfb_pci_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 				 const struct pci_device_id *ent)
@@ -2314,19 +2330,21 @@ static int radeonfb_pci_register(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	rinfo->fb_base_phys = pci_resource_start (pdev, 0);
 	rinfo->mmio_base_phys = pci_resource_start (pdev, 2);
 
+	ret = radeon_kick_out_firmware_fb(pdev);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	/* request the mem regions */
 	ret = pci_request_region(pdev, 0, "radeonfb framebuffer");
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		printk( KERN_ERR "radeonfb (%s): cannot request region 0.\n",
 			pci_name(rinfo->pdev));
-		goto err_release_fb;
 	}
 
 	ret = pci_request_region(pdev, 2, "radeonfb mmio");
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		printk( KERN_ERR "radeonfb (%s): cannot request region 2.\n",
 			pci_name(rinfo->pdev));
-		goto err_release_pci0;
 	}
 
 	/* map the regions */
-- 
2.1.4



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