Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support

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On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:59:11PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The x86 architecture has generic support to register a system framebuffer
> platform device. It either registers a "simple-framebuffer" if the config
> option CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is enabled, or a legacy VGA/VBE/EFI FB device.
> 
> But the code is generic enough to be reused by other architectures and can
> be moved out of the arch/x86 directory.
> 
> This will allow to also support the simple{fb,drm} drivers on non-x86 EFI
> platforms, such as aarch64 where these drivers are only supported with DT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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