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The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots. But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display hardware is already present. This is more likely to occur after commitd391c58271("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support") since the "efi-framebuffer" and "simple-framebuffer" platform devices are registered at a later time. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110200253.rfudkt3edbd3nsyj@lahvuun/ Fixes:d391c58271("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support") Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Tested-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211111115757.1351045-1-javierm@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.