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Enabling it allows to run simpledrm and simplefb on EFI/VESA framebuffers. Doing this is discouraged in favor of using efidrm and vesadrm. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann --- drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 33 ++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig index bbd2155d8483..b4e705abdc8f 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig @@ -184,32 +184,23 @@ config SYSFB select SCREEN_INFO config SYSFB_SIMPLEFB - bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" + bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer (deprecated)" depends on X86 || EFI select SYSFB help Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for - user-guidance and debugging. Historically, x86 used the VESA BIOS - Extensions and EFI-framebuffers for this, which are mostly limited - to x86 BIOS or EFI systems. - This option, if enabled, marks VGA/VBE/EFI framebuffers as generic - framebuffers so the new generic system-framebuffer drivers can be - used instead. If the framebuffer is not compatible with the generic - modes, it is advertised as fallback platform framebuffer so legacy - drivers like efifb, vesafb and uvesafb can pick it up. - If this option is not selected, all system framebuffers are always - marked as fallback platform framebuffers as usual. - - Note: Legacy fbdev drivers, including vesafb, efifb, uvesafb, will - not be able to pick up generic system framebuffers if this option - is selected. You are highly encouraged to enable simplefb as - replacement if you select this option. simplefb can correctly deal - with generic system framebuffers. But you should still keep vesafb - and others enabled as fallback if a system framebuffer is - incompatible with simplefb. - - If unsure, say Y. + user-guidance and debugging. + + This option, if enabled, marks VBE/EFI framebuffers as system + framebuffers so the generic simpledrm driver can be used. If the + framebuffer is not compatible with the generic modes, it is + advertised as fallback platform framebuffer so regular drivers like + efidrm, vesadrm can pick it up. + + This option is deprecated and will be removed in the near future. If + unsure, say N and select efidrm, vesadrm instead. The dedicated DRM + drivers provide the same functionality plus additional features. config TH1520_AON_PROTOCOL tristate "Always-On firmware protocol" -- 2.54.0