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PCI/VGA: Don't assume the only VGA device on a system is `boot_vga`
authorMario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 04:46:38 +0000 (22:46 -0600)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 07:15:26 +0000 (08:15 +0100)
commitfd390ff144513eb0310c350b1cf5fa8d6ddd0c53
tree7946552ff07f4c91dcb12918bf2d37caf32aef4e
parente8b3627bec357698f2d4d6dbf27cdcfa0e9d8715
PCI/VGA: Don't assume the only VGA device on a system is `boot_vga`

Some systems ship with multiple display class devices but not all
of them are VGA devices. If the "only" VGA device on the system is not
used for displaying the image on the screen marking it as `boot_vga`
because nothing was found is totally wrong.

This behavior actually leads to mistakes of the wrong device being
advertised to userspace and then userspace can make incorrect decisions.

As there is an accurate `boot_display` sysfs file stop lying about
`boot_vga` by assuming if nothing is found it's the right device.

Reported-by: Aaron Erhardt <aer@tuxedocomputers.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220712
Tested-by: Aaron Erhardt <aer@tuxedocomputers.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Fixes: ad90860bd10ee ("fbcon: Use screen info to find primary device")
Tested-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106044638.52906-1-superm1@kernel.org
drivers/pci/vgaarb.c