On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:23:34AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Greg FYI, I plan to carry this patch via the s390/kvm tree. > As it drivers/tty/Kconfig, can you give an ack for this part? > > > On 02/22/2018 05:22 PM, Farhan Ali wrote: > > The S390 architecture does not support any graphics hardware, > > but with the latest support for Virtio GPU in Linux and Virtio > > GPU emulation in QEMU, it's possible to enable graphics for > > S390 using the Virtio GPU device. > > > > To enable display we need to enable the Linux Virtual Terminal (VT) > > layer for S390. But the VT subsystem initializes quite early > > at boot so we need a dummy console driver till the Virtio GPU > > driver is initialized and we can run the framebuffer console. > > > > The framebuffer console over a Virtio GPU device can be run > > in combination with the serial SCLP console (default on S390). > > The SCLP console can still be accessed by management applications > > (eg: via Libvirt's virsh console). > > > > Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++ > > drivers/tty/Kconfig | 2 +- > > drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 2 +- > > 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
