[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/i915: Kick fbdev before vgacon" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/i915: Kick fbdev before vgacon

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 71508e151a64de75bfdef4e83b8059a01e25a589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:09:49 +0100
Subject: drm/i915: Kick fbdev before vgacon

commit 0485c9dc24ec0939b42ca5104c0373297506b555 upstream.

It's magic, but it seems to work.

This fixes a regression introduced in

commit 1bb9e632a0aeee1121e652ee4dc80e5e6f14bcd2
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue Jul 8 10:02:43 2014 +0200

    drm/i915: Only unbind vgacon, not other console drivers

My best guess is that the vga fbdev driver falls over if we rip out
parts of vgacon. Hooray.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82439
Reported-and-tested-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 0663fb4fa606..646b68a58979 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1662,15 +1662,17 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
 		goto out_regs;

 	if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) {
-		ret = i915_kick_out_vgacon(dev_priv);
+		/* WARNING: Apparently we must kick fbdev drivers before vgacon,
+		 * otherwise the vga fbdev driver falls over. */
+		ret = i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
 		if (ret) {
-			DRM_ERROR("failed to remove conflicting VGA console\n");
+			DRM_ERROR("failed to remove conflicting framebuffer drivers\n");
 			goto out_gtt;
 		}

-		ret = i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
+		ret = i915_kick_out_vgacon(dev_priv);
 		if (ret) {
-			DRM_ERROR("failed to remove conflicting framebuffer drivers\n");
+			DRM_ERROR("failed to remove conflicting VGA console\n");
 			goto out_gtt;
 		}
 	}
--
2.1.0