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firmware: coreboot: Don't register a pdev if screen_info data is present

On coreboot platforms, a system framebuffer may be provided to the Linux
kernel by filling a LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry in the coreboot table. But
a coreboot payload (e.g: SeaBIOS) could also provide its own framebuffer
information to the Linux kernel.

If that's the case, arch x86 boot code will fill the global screen_info
data and this used by the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) framework,
to register a platform device with pdata about the system's framebuffer.

But later, the framebuffer_coreboot driver will try to do the same and
attempt to register a "simple-framebuffer" platform device (using the
information from the coreboot table), which will lead to an error due a
device with the same name already being registered:

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/simple-framebuffer.0'
...
coreboot: could not register framebuffer
framebuffer coreboot8: probe with driver framebuffer failed with error -17

To prevent this issue, make the framebuffer_core driver to not register
a platform device if the global struct screen_info data has been filled.

Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZuCG-DggNThuF4pj@b20ea791c01f/T/#ma7fb65acbc1a56042258adac910992bb225a20d2
Suggested-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240916110040.1688511-3-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>

authored by

Javier Martinez Canillas and committed by
Tzung-Bi Shih
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drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c
··· 15 15 #include <linux/module.h> 16 16 #include <linux/platform_data/simplefb.h> 17 17 #include <linux/platform_device.h> 18 + #include <linux/sysfb.h> 18 19 19 20 #include "coreboot_table.h" 20 21 ··· 36 35 .stride = fb->bytes_per_line, 37 36 .format = NULL, 38 37 }; 38 + 39 + /* 40 + * On coreboot systems, the advertised LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry 41 + * in the coreboot table should only be used if the payload did 42 + * not pass a framebuffer information to the Linux kernel. 43 + * 44 + * If the global screen_info data has been filled, the Generic 45 + * System Framebuffers (sysfb) will already register a platform 46 + * device and pass that screen_info as platform_data to a driver 47 + * that can scan-out using the system provided framebuffer. 48 + */ 49 + if (sysfb_handles_screen_info()) 50 + return -ENODEV; 39 51 40 52 if (!fb->physical_address) 41 53 return -ENODEV;