[RFC 5/6] drm: add helpers to kick out firmware drivers

2013-06-25 Thread David Herrmann
If we load a real hardware DRM driver, we want all firmware drivers to be unloaded. Historically, this was done via remove_conflicting_framebuffers(), but for DRM drivers (like SimpleDRM) we need a new way. This patch introduces DRIVER_FIRMWARE and DRM apertures to provide a quite similar way to k

[RFC 5/6] drm: add helpers to kick out firmware drivers

2013-06-24 Thread David Herrmann
If we load a real hardware DRM driver, we want all firmware drivers to be unloaded. Historically, this was done via remove_conflicting_framebuffers(), but for DRM drivers (like SimpleDRM) we need a new way. This patch introduces DRIVER_FIRMWARE and DRM apertures to provide a quite similar way to k