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[92.176.231.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c13-20020adfe74d000000b0030ae499da59sm3745589wrn.111.2023.06.30.10.38.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:38:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Thomas Zimmermann , Arnd Bergmann , Borislav Petkov , Daniel Vetter , Dave Hansen , David Airlie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Helge Deller , Ingo Molnar , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow disabling all native fbdev drivers and only keeping DRM emulation In-Reply-To: References: <20230629225113.297512-1-javierm@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:38:01 +0200 Message-ID: <878rc0etqe.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Andy Shevchenko writes: Hello Andy, > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:51:02AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> This patch series splits the fbdev core support in two different Kconfig >> symbols: FB and FB_CORE. The motivation for this is to allow CONFIG_FB to >> be disabled, while still having the the core fbdev support needed for the >> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION to be enabled. The motivation is automatically >> disabling all fbdev drivers instead of having to be disabled individually. >> >> The reason for doing this is that now with simpledrm, there's no need for >> the legacy fbdev (e.g: efifb or vesafb) drivers anymore and many distros > > How does simpledrm works with earlycon=efi? > simpledrm isn't for earlycon. For that you use a different driver (i.e: drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c). I'm just talking about fbdev drivers here that could be replaced by simpledrm. -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Core Platforms Red Hat