Am 26.02.25 um 08:48 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
Hi Arnd
Am 25.02.25 um 17:44 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Dummycon is used as a fallback conswitchp for vgacon and fbcon
in the VT code, and there are no references to it if all three
are disabled, so just leave it out of the kernel image for
configurations without those.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
index bc31db6ef7d2..1c4263c164ce 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ config SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE
card of your Indy. Most people say Y here.
config DUMMY_CONSOLE
- bool
- default y
+ def_bool VT || VGA_CONSOLE || FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
What about MDA_CONSOLE and STI_CONSOLE. Don't they require this as
fallback?
I did some grepping in the kernel sources and found the answer to this
question. It's still surprising that the other consoles don't use
dummycon. They are never unloaded, it seems.
Best regards
Thomas
Best regards
Thomas
config DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS
int "Initial number of console screen columns"
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