On 15.02.2018 12:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Christian Borntraeger > <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> To enable the virtual terminal layer with virtio-gpu, we need to >> provide the dummy console. This console is hidden behind CONFIG_IOMEM >> via the graphics support. Instead of fully enabling the graphic >> drivers lets just provide a Kconfig option for the dummy console. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> New version: instead of moving around the graphic and console stuff, >> let's just keep an s390 specific variant of CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE >> arch/s390/Kconfig | 5 +++++ >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig >> index cbe1d978693a..a69690f616f3 100644 >> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig >> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig >> @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ config S390_HYPFS_FS >> >> source "arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig" >> >> +config DUMMY_CONSOLE >> + bool >> + depends on VT >> + default y >> + >> config S390_GUEST >> def_bool y >> prompt "s390 support for virtio devices" > > Really? > > You already have your own copy of HAS_IOMEM, which makes it hard for > people to track which one applies where. I think I agree with Geert - let's better fix this in a proper way instead of doing hacks like this. I guess there will be other architectures in the future that might want to use the dummy console without CONFIG_IOMEM, so fixing this in drivers/video/ instead sounds better to me. Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
