On 3/17/19 3:34 PM, Greg V wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 3:07 PM, Johannes Lundberg
> <johal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm working on making i915kms unload properly. I've come to what I think
>> is the last issue. The drm driver unloads ok, the "efifb" backend is
>> restored (according to logs) and vt_efifb_init() is being called but the
>> screen (laptop built in display) stays black. The system seems
>> operational otherwise. If I load i915kms again in this state I get back
>> a visible (i915kms) framebuffer.
>>
>> Did we ever have this working so it's known to work?
>
> Recently on the linux kernel mailing list:
>
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.1/01162.html
>
> > Of course, once native drivers like i915 or radeon take over, such a
> framebuffer is toast... [6]
>
> > [6] linux/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c::i915_kick_out_firmware_fb()
> > linux/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c::radeon_pci_probe()
>
> So it seems like efifb is not supposed to work after a driver has been
> loaded at least once.
>
>
Hmm, well the code is there to handle switching back to the boot time
fb. What I think is happening is that i915 powers off the displays at
unload and vt doesn't know how to power on (or that it should).



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