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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c')
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..193ec2ce46c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +/* + * Generic System Framebuffers on x86 + * Copyright (c) 2012-2013 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free + * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) + * any later version. + */ + +/* + * Simple-Framebuffer support for x86 systems + * Create a platform-device for any available boot framebuffer. The + * simple-framebuffer platform device is already available on DT systems, so + * this module parses the global "screen_info" object and creates a suitable + * platform device compatible with the "simple-framebuffer" DT object. If + * the framebuffer is incompatible, we instead create a legacy + * "vesa-framebuffer", "efi-framebuffer" or "platform-framebuffer" device and + * pass the screen_info as platform_data. This allows legacy drivers + * to pick these devices up without messing with simple-framebuffer drivers. + * The global "screen_info" is still valid at all times. + * + * If CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is not selected, we never register "simple-framebuffer" + * platform devices, but only use legacy framebuffer devices for + * backwards compatibility. + * + * TODO: We set the dev_id field of all platform-devices to 0. This allows + * other x86 OF/DT parsers to create such devices, too. However, they must + * start at offset 1 for this to work. + */ + +#include <linux/err.h> +#include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/platform_data/simplefb.h> +#include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/screen_info.h> +#include <asm/sysfb.h> + +static __init int sysfb_init(void) +{ + struct screen_info *si = &screen_info; + struct simplefb_platform_data mode; + struct platform_device *pd; + const char *name; + bool compatible; + int ret; + + sysfb_apply_efi_quirks(); + + /* try to create a simple-framebuffer device */ + compatible = parse_mode(si, &mode); + if (compatible) { + ret = create_simplefb(si, &mode); + if (!ret) + return 0; + } + + /* if the FB is incompatible, create a legacy framebuffer device */ + if (si->orig_video_isVGA == VIDEO_TYPE_EFI) + name = "efi-framebuffer"; + else if (si->orig_video_isVGA == VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB) + name = "vesa-framebuffer"; + else + name = "platform-framebuffer"; + + pd = platform_device_register_resndata(NULL, name, 0, + NULL, 0, si, sizeof(*si)); + return IS_ERR(pd) ? PTR_ERR(pd) : 0; +} + +/* must execute after PCI subsystem for EFI quirks */ +device_initcall(sysfb_init); |