Patch "staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-sm750fb-avoid-conflicting-vesafb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Teddy Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:57:43 +0100
Subject: staging: sm750fb: avoid conflicting vesafb

From: Teddy Wang <[email protected]>

commit 740c433ec35187b45abe08bb6c45a321a791be8e upstream.

If vesafb is enabled in the config then /dev/fb0 is created by vesa and this sm750 driver gets fb1, fb2. But we need to be fb0 and fb1 to effectively work with xorg.
So if it has been alloted fb1, then try to remove the other fb0.

In the previous send, why #ifdef is used was asked.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/57

Answered at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/69
Also pasting here for reference.

'Did a quick research into "why".
The patch d8801e4df91e ("x86/PCI: Set IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW only for the default VGA device") has started setting IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW in flags for a default VGA device and that is being done only for x86. And so, we will need that #ifdef to check IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW as that needs to be checked only for a x86 and not for other arch.'

---
 drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

@@ -1002,6 +1002,26 @@ NO_PARAM:
 	}
 }
 
+static int lynxfb_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+	struct apertures_struct *ap;
+	bool primary = false;
+
+	ap = alloc_apertures(1);
+	if (!ap)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ap->ranges[0].base = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
+	ap->ranges[0].size = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+	primary = pdev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE].flags &
+					IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW;
+#endif
+	remove_conflicting_framebuffers(ap, "sm750_fb1", primary);
+	kfree(ap);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int lynxfb_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 			    const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 {

@@ -1009,6 +1029,10 @@ static int lynxfb_pci_probe(struct pci_d
 	struct sm750_dev *sm750_dev = NULL;
 	int fbidx;
 
+	err = lynxfb_kick_out_firmware_fb(pdev);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	/* enable device */
 	if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
 		pr_err("can not enable device.\n");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/staging-sm750fb-avoid-conflicting-vesafb.patch