Am 23.07.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
> Le 23/07/2015 14:16, Andreas Färber a écrit :
>> Am 20.07.2015 um 14:28 schrieb Guillaume Gardet:
>>> Le 19/07/2015 18:15, Misha Komarovskiy a écrit :
>>>> Also lcd screen stays black after kernel start, probably some drm
>>>> module still missing.
>>> Upstream kernel is broken. :(
>> How did you test? Actually there's a known issue that the Exynos IOMMU
>> support breaks graphics on the Chromebooks because they enable a
>> framebuffer early in bootloaders, before Linux initializes the IOMMU.
>> Since some other platforms do need the IOMMU, I fear that we're going to
>> need a new kernel flavor... :/ Not sure if that can be scripted as lpae
>> minus certain options?
> 
> You mean that if we disable IOMMU in kernel, graphics are working fine?

Hopefully yes. I did not test the latest kernel. It used to be that way
~3 months ago in linux-next.git (cf. linux-samsung-soc) and I doubt it's
improved.

> CONFIG_DRM_EXYNOS_IOMMU is enabled. Should we disable it for chromebooks?

Yes. But at some point that got auto-selected, so it may be necessary to
disable IOMMU or the corresponding Exynos sub-option completely.

> Maybe some config options compiled as module (which?) and blacklisted
> for chromebooks could be ok?

Maybe. Someone with a Chromebook needs to sit down and try. :)

Regards,
Andreas

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