Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] fbcon: Use screen info to find primary device

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 27.06.25 um 06:31 schrieb Mario Limonciello:
> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
>
> On systems with non VGA GPUs fbcon can't find the primary GPU because
> video_is_primary_device() only checks the VGA arbiter.
>
> Add a screen info check to video_is_primary_device() so that callers
> can get accurate data on such systems.
>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for sticking with it. This patch is also useful without the sysfs 
interface.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>

Best regards
Thomas

> ---
> v5:
>   * Only change video-common.c
> v4:
>   * use helper
> ---
>   arch/x86/video/video-common.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/video/video-common.c b/arch/x86/video/video-common.c
> index 81fc97a2a837a..917568e4d7fb1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/video/video-common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/video/video-common.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>   
>   #include <linux/module.h>
>   #include <linux/pci.h>
> +#include <linux/screen_info.h>
>   #include <linux/vgaarb.h>
>   
>   #include <asm/video.h>
> @@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgprot_framebuffer);
>   
>   bool video_is_primary_device(struct device *dev)
>   {
> +	struct screen_info *si = &screen_info;
>   	struct pci_dev *pdev;
>   
>   	if (!dev_is_pci(dev))
> @@ -34,7 +36,16 @@ bool video_is_primary_device(struct device *dev)
>   
>   	pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
>   
> -	return (pdev == vga_default_device());
> +	if (!pci_is_display(pdev))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (pdev == vga_default_device())
> +		return true;
> +
> +	if (pdev == screen_info_pci_dev(si))
> +		return true;
> +
> +	return false;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_is_primary_device);
>   

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Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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