The recent commits to add the parent device path broke Debian's kvm based QA workers for testing installer ISOs after a kernel upgrade from v6.8.12 to v6.9.7. For the details:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075713 It took some time to track it down since the superficial symptom appeared to involve the QXL driver. It turned out however to be the fbdev driver; specifically the change in the parent device path in sysfs reported between the two kernels: 6.8.12: /sys/class/graphics/fb0 -> ../../devices/platform/vesa-framebuffer.0/graphics/fb0 6.9.7: /sys/class/graphics/fb0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/vesa-framebuffer.0/graphics/fb0 This breaks xserver-xorg-core's libfbdevhw.so because it differentiates code-paths based on whether "devices/pci" is matched in the symlink. See hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c::fbdev_open() https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c?ref_type=heads#L381
