Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] vgaarb: Rework default VGA device selection

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Feb 14 2022 - 11:19:30 EST


On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:46:33PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hey,
>  
> Op 31-01-2022 om 23:23 schreef Bjorn Helgaas:
> > [+to Maarten, Maxime, Thomas; beginning of thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106000658.243509-1-helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:06:48PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Current default VGA device selection fails in some cases because
> >> part of it is done in the vga_arb_device_init() subsys_initcall,
> >> and some arches enumerate PCI devices in pcibios_init(), which
> >> runs *after* that.
> >
> > Where are we at with this series? Is there anything I can do to
> > move it forward?
>
> I'm afraid that I don't understand the vga arbiter or the vga code
> well enough to review.
>
> Could you perhaps find someone who could review?
>
> I see Chen wrote some patches and tested, so perhaps they could?

Hi Maarten,

Huacai Chen did provide his Reviewed-by (although as he noted, the
content initially came from him anyway and my contribution was mainly
rearranging things into separate patches for each specific case).

Anything else we can to do help here?

Bjorn