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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 18:55:42 +0200
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
ping! What's the status of this patchset?
Am 07.07.23 um 11:52 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> The list of dependencies here is phrased as an opt-out, but this is missing
> a lot of architectures that don't actually support VGA consoles, and some
> of the entries are stale:
>
> - powerpc used to support VGA consoles in the old arch/ppc codebase, but
> the merged arch/powerpc never did
>
> - arm lists footbridge, integrator and netwinder, but netwinder is actually
> part of footbridge, and integrator does not appear to have an actual
> VGA hardware, or list it in its ATAG or DT.
>
> - mips has a few platforms (jazz, sibyte, and sni) that initialize
> screen_info, on everything else the console is selected but cannot
> actually work.
>
> - csky, hexgagon, loongarch, nios2, riscv and xtensa are not listed
> in the opt-out table and declare a screen_info to allow building
> vga_con, but this cannot work because the console is never selected.
>
> Replace this with an opt-in table that lists only the platforms that
> remain. This is effectively x86, plus a couple of historic workstation
> and server machines that reused parts of the x86 system architecture.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
> drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> index a2a88d42edf0c..47c498defc211 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ menu "Console display driver support"
>
> config VGA_CONSOLE
> bool "VGA text console" if EXPERT || !X86
> - depends on !4xx && !PPC_8xx && !SPARC && !M68K && !PARISC && !SUPERH && \
> - (!ARM || ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_NETWINDER) && \
> - !ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !S390 && !UML
> + depends on ALPHA || IA64 || X86 || \
> + (ARM && ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE) || \
> + (MIPS && (MIPS_MALTA || SIBYTE_BCM112X || SIBYTE_SB1250 || SIBYTE_BCM1x80 || SNI_RM))
> select APERTURE_HELPERS if (DRM || FB || VFIO_PCI_CORE)
> default y
> help
--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Frankenstrasse 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany
GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Boudien Moerman
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