On 11/5/21 10:39, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: [snip] >>>> >>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE) += drm_nomodeset.o >>>> + >>> >>> This now depends on the VGA textmode console. Even if you have no VGA >>> console, you'd want drm_nomodeset.o. Simpledrm might be built-in and can >>> provide graphics. Non-PC systems don't even have a VGA device. >> >> This was discussed in an earlier version, which had this builtin but the >> header still had a stub for CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=n. >> >>> I think we really want a separate boolean config option that gets >>> selected by CONFIG_DRM. >> >> Perhaps that should be a separate change on top. > > Sure, make it a separate patch. > Agreed. I was planning to do it as a follow-up as well and drop the #ifdef CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE guard in the header. > We want to make this work on ARM systems. I even have a request to > replace offb on Power architecture by simpledrm. So the final config has > to be system agnostic. > Same, since we want to drop the fbdev drivers in Fedora, for all arches. > Best regards > Thomas > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
