This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RISC-V: defconfigs: Set CONFIG_FB=y, for FB console to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: risc-v-defconfigs-set-config_fb-y-for-fb-console.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3d12b634fe8206ea974c6061a3f3eea529ffbc48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:44:02 -0800 Subject: RISC-V: defconfigs: Set CONFIG_FB=y, for FB console From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3d12b634fe8206ea974c6061a3f3eea529ffbc48 upstream. We have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y in the defconfigs, but that depends on CONFIG_FB so it's not actually getting set. I'm assuming most users on real systems want a framebuffer console, so this enables CONFIG_FB to allow that to take effect. Fixes: 33c57c0d3c67 ("RISC-V: Add a basic defconfig") Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/riscv/configs/defconfig | 1 + arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ CONFIG_DRM=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=m CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU=m +CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y --- a/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ CONFIG_POWER_RESET=y CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU=y +CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.16/riscv-mm-fix-wrong-phys_ram_base-value-for-rv64.patch queue-5.16/riscv-use-hart-id-instead-of-cpu-id-on-machine_kexec.patch queue-5.16/riscv-don-t-use-va_pa_offset-on-kdump.patch queue-5.16/riscv-dts-microchip-mpfs-drop-empty-chosen-node.patch queue-5.16/risc-v-use-common-riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask-for-both-smp-y-and-smp-n.patch queue-5.16/risc-v-defconfigs-set-config_fb-y-for-fb-console.patch queue-5.16/riscv-try-to-allocate-crashkern-region-from-32bit-addressible-memory.patch queue-5.16/riscv-get-rid-of-maxphysmem-configs.patch