On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Yuriy Kolerov
<yuriy.kolerov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Architectures which support VGA console must define screen_info
> structurture from "uapi/linux/screen_info.h". Otherwise undefined
> symbol error occurs. Usually it's defined in "setup.c" for each
> architecture.
>
> If an architecture does not support VGA console (ARC's case)
> there are 2 ways: define a dummy instance of screen_info or add
> a negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE in to prevent selecting
> this option.
>
> I've implemented the second way. However the best solution is to
> add HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE option for targets which support VGA
> console. Then turn off VGA_CONSOLE by default and add dependency
> to HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE. But right now it's better to just add a
> negative dependency for ARC and then consider how to collaborate
> about this issue with maintainers of other architectures.
+1
> Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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