drm/ast: Remove existing framebuffers before loading driver
authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:42:16 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 1 Dec 2018 08:42:52 +0000 (09:42 +0100)
commitdca24b512763930963408ea5c78a2f223a73a2a8
treee96feec23b4722751b85fdac8d181b8f497ecdcb
parentffc3c0ffbb93be9b1b75f0a71ba38501039f5180
drm/ast: Remove existing framebuffers before loading driver

commit 5478ad10e7850ce3d8b7056db05ddfa3c9ddad9a upstream.

If vesafb attaches to the AST device, it configures the framebuffer memory
for uncached access by default. When ast.ko later tries to attach itself to
the device, it wants to use write-combining on the framebuffer memory, but
vesefb's existing configuration for uncached access takes precedence. This
results in reduced performance.

Removing the framebuffer's configuration before loding the AST driver fixes
the problem. Other DRM drivers already contain equivalent code.

Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112963
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Y.C. Chen <yc_chen@aspeedtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.c