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Message-ID: <4C7551B1.3000703@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:24:01 -0400
From: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
To: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
CC: Colin Watson <cjwatson@...onical.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new linearfb driver
On 08/25/2010 01:04 PM, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Wed, 25 August 2010 Colin Watson <cjwatson@...onical.com> wrote:
>> Split out linearfb from efifb so that boot loaders can program it as a
>> simple linear framebuffer on non-EFI systems. This is useful for boot
>> loaders with their own graphics drivers, e.g. GRUB 2, since in some
>> cases on x86 they can set up non-VESA modes and thus can't program
>> vesafb.
>>
>> efifb is reworked on top of this common code, and it should be possible
>> to do the same with some other framebuffer drivers in future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@...onical.com>
>> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/video/Kconfig | 17 ++-
>> drivers/video/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/video/efifb.c | 222 +----------------------------
>> drivers/video/linearfb.c | 332 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/fb.h | 8 +
>> include/linux/screen_info.h | 2 +
>> 6 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/video/linearfb.c
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
>> index 59c51d9..a7735ec 100644
>> --- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
>> @@ -721,13 +721,24 @@ config FB_VESA
>> You will get a boot time penguin logo at no additional cost. Please
>> read <file:Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt>. If unsure, say Y.
>>
>> -config FB_EFI
>> - bool "EFI-based Framebuffer Support"
>> - depends on (FB = y) && X86 && EFI
>> +config FB_LINEAR
>> + bool "Simple linear framebuffer support"
>> + depends on FB
>> select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
>> select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
>> select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> help
>> + This is a simple linear frame buffer device driver. It has no
>> + hardware-specific programming capability, but must be programmed
>> + by the boot loader or by another frame buffer driver.
>> +
>> + If unsure, say N.
>> +
>> +config FB_EFI
>> + bool "EFI-based Framebuffer Support"
>> + depends on (FB = y) && X86 && EFI
>> + select FB_LINEAR
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Has kconfig been adjusted to process select recursively?
> If not the selects from FB_LINEAR will have to be copied here.
This could also be solved by just making it depend on FB_LINEAR instead of
using "select".
--
Peter
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