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From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>,
	"Jani Nikula" <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	"Joonas Lahtinen" <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Rodrigo Vivi" <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
	"Tvrtko Ursulin" <tursulin@ursulin.net>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	"Uma Shankar" <uma.shankar@intel.com>,
	"Mika Kahola" <mika.kahola@intel.com>,
	"Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>,
	"Vinod Govindapillai" <vinod.govindapillai@intel.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Jouni Högander" <jouni.hogander@intel.com>,
	"Chaitanya Kumar Borah" <chaitanya.kumar.borah@intel.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/fbdev: fix link failure without FBDEV emulation
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:18:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b3354fe-ff49-4436-9f36-2a19eaf2918c@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9fe5e38-de78-45f3-82ae-adf0996a7aa1@suse.de>

Hi

Am 04.03.26 um 09:43 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> Hi
>
> Am 04.03.26 um 09:36 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> If CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION is disabled but CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
>> is turned on, the i915 driver now fails to link:
>>
>> ERROR: modpost: "intel_fbdev_fb_prefer_stolen" 
>> [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!
>>
>> Fix the contition to include a check for the symbol that controls 
>> compilation
>> of intel_fbdev_fb.c.
>>
>> Fixes: 94c7d2861292 ("drm/i915/fbdev: Extract 
>> intel_fbdev_fb_prefer_stolen()")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_initial_plane.c | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_initial_plane.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_initial_plane.c
>> index 5594548f51d8..390a9248d631 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_initial_plane.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_initial_plane.c
>> @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ initial_plane_vma(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
>>        * important and we should probably use that space with FBC or 
>> other
>>        * features.
>>        */
>> -    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE) &&
>> +    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION) &&
>> +        IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE) &&
>
> It's possible to run fbdev without the console. So if I'm not 
> mistaken, only CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION would be correct.

Did anyone pick up this fix?

Best regards
Thomas

>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>
>>           mem == i915->mm.stolen_region &&
>>           !intel_fbdev_fb_prefer_stolen(&i915->drm, size)) {
>>           drm_dbg_kms(&i915->drm, "Initial FB size exceeds half of 
>> stolen, discarding\n");
>

-- 
--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Frankenstr. 146, 90461 Nürnberg, Germany, www.suse.com
GF: Jochen Jaser, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich, (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)



  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-16 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-04  8:36 Arnd Bergmann
2026-03-04  8:43 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-03-16 12:18   ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
2026-03-18 11:24     ` Jani Nikula

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