Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.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

Not disputing this, but how did you come to that conclusion? I grepped
around and couldn't convince myself whether it can work on powerpc or
not. ie. currently it's possible to enable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE and
powerpc does have a struct screen_info defined which seems like it would
allow vgacon_startup() to complete.

My only concern is that someone could be using it with Qemu?

cheers