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Hot-unplug all firmware-framebuffer devices as part of removing them via remove_conflicting_framebuffers() et al. Releases all memory regions to be acquired by native drivers. Firmware, such as EFI, install a framebuffer while posting the computer. After removing the firmware-framebuffer device from fbdev, a native driver takes over the hardware and the firmware framebuffer becomes invalid. Firmware-framebuffer drivers, specifically simplefb, don't release their device from Linux' device hierarchy. It still owns the firmware framebuffer and blocks the native drivers from loading. This has been observed in the vmwgfx driver. [1] Initiating a device removal (i.e., hot unplug) as part of remove_conflicting_framebuffers() removes the underlying device and returns the memory range to the system. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220117180359.18114-1-zack@kde.org/ v2: * rename variable 'dev' to 'device' (Javier) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reported-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+ Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220125091222.21457-2-tzimmermann@suse.de |
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Linux kernel
============
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.