Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:58:54 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> |
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On 11/5/21 10:39, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
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>>>> >>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE) += drm_nomodeset.o >>>> + >>> >>> This now depends on the VGA textmode console. Even if you have no VGA >>> console, you'd want drm_nomodeset.o. Simpledrm might be built-in and can >>> provide graphics. Non-PC systems don't even have a VGA device. >> >> This was discussed in an earlier version, which had this builtin but the >> header still had a stub for CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=n. >> >>> I think we really want a separate boolean config option that gets >>> selected by CONFIG_DRM. >> >> Perhaps that should be a separate change on top. > > Sure, make it a separate patch. >
Agreed. I was planning to do it as a follow-up as well and drop the #ifdef CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE guard in the header.
> We want to make this work on ARM systems. I even have a request to > replace offb on Power architecture by simpledrm. So the final config has > to be system agnostic. >
Same, since we want to drop the fbdev drivers in Fedora, for all arches.
> Best regards > Thomas > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
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