linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:03:15 +0200
From:   Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, airlied@...ux.ie,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers

Hi

Am 09.06.22 um 23:44 schrieb Alex Williamson:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:41:02 -0600
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 11:13:22 +0200
>> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please have a look at the attached patch. It moves the aperture helpers
>>> to a location common to the various possible users (DRM, fbdev, vfio).
>>> The DRM interfaces remain untouched for now.  The patch should provide
>>> what you need in vfio and also serve our future use cases for graphics
>>> drivers. If possible, please create your patch on top of it.
>>
>> Looks good to me, this of course makes the vfio change quite trivial.
>> One change I'd request:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
>> index 40c50fa2dd70..7f3c44e1538b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
>> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config VGA_CONSOLE
>>   	depends on !4xx && !PPC_8xx && !SPARC && !M68K && !PARISC &&  !SUPERH && \
>>   		(!ARM || ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_NETWINDER) && \
>>   		!ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !S390 && !UML
>> +	select APERTURE_HELPERS if (DRM || FB || VFIO_PCI)
>>   	default y
>>   	help
>>   	  Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
>>
>> This should be VFIO_PCI_CORE.  Thanks,

I attached an updated patch to this email.

> 
> Also, whatever tree this lands in, I'd appreciate a topic branch being
> made available so I can more easily get the vfio change in on the same
> release.  Thanks,

You can add my patch to your series and merge it through vfio. You'd 
only have to cc dri-devel for the patch's review. I guess it's more 
important for vfio than DRM. We have no hurry on the DRM side, but v5.20 
would be nice.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> Alex
> 

-- 
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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