Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:03:15 +0200
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Am 09.06.22 um 23:44 schrieb Alex Williamson:
> > 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,  
> 
> I attached an updated patch to this email.
> 
> > 
> > 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,  
> 
> You can add my patch to your series and merge it through vfio. You'd 
> only have to cc dri-devel for the patch's review. I guess it's more 
> important for vfio than DRM. We have no hurry on the DRM side, but v5.20 
> would be nice.

Ok, I didn't realize you were offering the patch for me to post and
merge.  I'll do that.  Thanks!

Alex