[PATCH 08/13] xfree86: Prefer fbdev to vesa

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Dec 6 15:21:25 PST 2013


On UEFI machines you'd prefer fbdev to grab efifb instead of vesa trying
to initialize and failing in a way we can't unwind from.  On BIOS
machines this is harmless: either there is an fbdev driver and it'll
probably be more capable, or there's not and vesa will kick in anyway.

Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
---
 hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c | 17 +++++++++--------
 hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c     |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
index 95d58fe..af2b7f8 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
+++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
@@ -267,14 +267,6 @@ listPossibleVideoDrivers(char *matches[], int nmatches)
     if (i < (nmatches - 1))
         i = xf86PciMatchDriver(matches, nmatches);
 #endif
-    /* Fallback to platform default hardware */
-    if (i < (nmatches - 1)) {
-#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__amd64__) || defined(__hurd__)
-        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("vesa");
-#elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
-        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("sunffb");
-#endif
-    }
 
 #if defined(__linux__)
     matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("modesetting");
@@ -290,6 +282,15 @@ listPossibleVideoDrivers(char *matches[], int nmatches)
 #endif
     }
 #endif                          /* !sun */
+
+    /* Fallback to platform default hardware */
+    if (i < (nmatches - 1)) {
+#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__amd64__) || defined(__hurd__)
+        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("vesa");
+#elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
+        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("sunffb");
+#endif
+    }
 }
 
 /* copy a screen section and enter the desired driver
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
index 74d5ed3..b5efc02 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
+++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ xf86InputDriverlistFromConfig(void)
 static void
 fixup_video_driver_list(char **drivers)
 {
-    static const char *fallback[4] = { "vesa", "fbdev", "wsfb", NULL };
+    static const char *fallback[4] = { "fbdev", "vesa", "wsfb", NULL };
     char **end, **drv;
     char *x;
     int i;
-- 
1.8.4.2



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