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[92.176.231.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q19-20020a056000137300b003143d80d11dsm5429196wrz.112.2023.07.19.07.23.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: Arnd Bergmann , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Zimmermann , Helge Deller Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "David S. Miller" , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Ard Biesheuvel , Borislav Petkov , Brian Cain , Catalin Marinas , Christophe Leroy , Daniel Vetter , Dave Hansen , David Airlie , Deepak Rawat , Dexuan Cui , Dinh Nguyen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Guo Ren , Haiyang Zhang , Huacai Chen , Ingo Molnar , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Khalid Aziz , Linus Walleij , Matt Turner , Max Filippov , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Palmer Dabbelt , Russell King , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Thomas Gleixner , WANG Xuerui , Wei Liu , Will Deacon , x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] vga16fb: drop powerpc support In-Reply-To: <20230719123944.3438363-8-arnd@kernel.org> References: <20230719123944.3438363-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20230719123944.3438363-8-arnd@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:23:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87a5vshtdy.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 Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > I noticed that commit 0db5b61e0dc07 ("fbdev/vga16fb: Create > EGA/VGA devices in sysfb code") broke vga16fb on non-x86 platforms, > because the sysfb code never creates a vga-framebuffer device when > screen_info.orig_video_isVGA is set to '1' instead of VIDEO_TYPE_VGAC. > > However, it turns out that the only architecture that has allowed > building vga16fb in the past 20 years is powerpc, and this only worked > on two 32-bit platforms and never on 64-bit powerpc. The last machine > that actually used this was removed in linux-3.10, so this is all dead > code and can be removed. > > The big-endian support in vga16fb.c could also be removed, but I'd just > leave this in place. > > Fixes: 933ee7119fb14 ("powerpc: remove PReP platform") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > --- Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Core Platforms Red Hat