Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 4 authors, 2014-03-07

[PATCH 01/11] x86: sysfb: fool-proof CONFIG_X86_SYSFB

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From: David Herrmann <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-23 14:15:49
Also in: dri-devel, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

Turns out, people do not read help-texts of new config-options and enable
them nonetheless. So several reports came in with X86_SYSFB=y and
FB_SIMPLE=n, which in almost all situations prevents firmware-fbs from
being probed.

X86_SYSFB clearly states that it turns legacy vesa/efi framebuffers into a
format compatible to simplefb (and does nothing else..). So to avoid
further complaints about missing gfx-support during boot, simply depend on
FB_SIMPLE now.
As FB_SIMPLE is disabled by default and usually only enabled on selected
ARM architectures, x86 users should thus never see the X86_SYSFB
config-option. And if they do, everything is fine as simplefb will be
available.

Note that most of the sysfb code is enabled independently of X86_SYSFB.
The config option only selects a compatibility mode for simplefb. It was
introduced to ease the transition to SimpleDRM and disabling fbdev. As
this is still ongoing, there's no need for non-developers to care for
X86_SYSFB so we can safely hide it behind FB_SIMPLE.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 0952ecd..098228e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2299,6 +2299,7 @@ source "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig"
 
 config X86_SYSFB
 	bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer"
+	depends on FB_SIMPLE
 	help
 	  Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS,
 	  bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for
-- 
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