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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers
On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:41:02 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 11:13:22 +0200
> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Please have a look at the attached patch. It moves the aperture helpers
> > to a location common to the various possible users (DRM, fbdev, vfio).
> > The DRM interfaces remain untouched for now. The patch should provide
> > what you need in vfio and also serve our future use cases for graphics
> > drivers. If possible, please create your patch on top of it.
>
> Looks good to me, this of course makes the vfio change quite trivial.
> One change I'd request:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> index 40c50fa2dd70..7f3c44e1538b 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config VGA_CONSOLE
> depends on !4xx && !PPC_8xx && !SPARC && !M68K && !PARISC && !SUPERH && \
> (!ARM || ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_NETWINDER) && \
> !ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !S390 && !UML
> + select APERTURE_HELPERS if (DRM || FB || VFIO_PCI)
> default y
> help
> Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
>
> This should be VFIO_PCI_CORE. Thanks,

Also, whatever tree this lands in, I'd appreciate a topic branch being
made available so I can more easily get the vfio change in on the same
release. Thanks,

Alex

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