On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:57:11AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> The native driver takes over the framebuffer aperture by removing the
> system- framebuffer platform device. Afterwards the pointer in drvdata
> is dangling. Remove the entire logic around drvdata and let the kernel's
> aperture helpers handle this. The platform device depends on the native
> hardware device instead of the coreboot device anyway.
>
> When commit 851b4c14532d ("firmware: coreboot: Add coreboot framebuffer
> driver") added the coreboot framebuffer code, the kernel did not support
> device-based aperture management. Instead native driviers only removed
> the conflicting fbdev device. At that point, unregistering the framebuffer
> device most likely worked correctly. It was definitely broken after
> commit d9702b2a2171 ("fbdev/simplefb: Do not use struct
> fb_info.apertures"). So take this commit for the Fixes tag. Earlier
> releases might work depending on the native hardware driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
> Fixes: d9702b2a2171 ("fbdev/simplefb: Do not use struct fb_info.apertures")
Acked-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <[email protected]>
