Hello Thomas,

On 5/16/21 12:30 PM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:

Am 16.05.21 um 09:48 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:

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There are drivers that register framebuffer devices very early in the boot
process and make use of the existing framebuffer as setup by the firmware.

If one of those drivers has registered a fbdev, then the fallback fbdev 

of

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the DRM driver won't be bound to the framebuffer console. To avoid that,
remove any existing generic driver and take over the graphics device.

By doing that, the fb mapped to the console is switched correctly from the
early fbdev to the one registered by the rockchip DRM driver:

     [   40.752420] fb0: switching to rockchip-drm-fb from EFI VGA

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Thanks for the ack.
 

Ping me if no one else merges the patch.

I would really appreciate if you merge this patch.
 

Best regards
Thomas

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer
New Platform Technologies Enablement team
RHEL Engineering


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