From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:58:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6bb4a-01ef-4979-f5c2-c0bb0d0a29f9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2698c680-6d05-f58d-d7c2-ea76aeb0bb47@suse.de>
On 11/5/21 10:39, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
[snip]
>>>>
>>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE) += drm_nomodeset.o
>>>> +
>>>
>>> This now depends on the VGA textmode console. Even if you have no VGA
>>> console, you'd want drm_nomodeset.o. Simpledrm might be built-in and can
>>> provide graphics. Non-PC systems don't even have a VGA device.
>>
>> This was discussed in an earlier version, which had this builtin but the
>> header still had a stub for CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=n.
>>
>>> I think we really want a separate boolean config option that gets
>>> selected by CONFIG_DRM.
>>
>> Perhaps that should be a separate change on top.
>
> Sure, make it a separate patch.
>
Agreed. I was planning to do it as a follow-up as well and drop the
#ifdef CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE guard in the header.
> We want to make this work on ARM systems. I even have a request to
> replace offb on Power architecture by simpledrm. So the final config has
> to be system agnostic.
>
Same, since we want to drop the fbdev drivers in Fedora, for all arches.
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-05 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-04 16:07 [PATCH v2 0/2] Cleanups for the nomodeset kernel command line parameter logic Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-11-04 16:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem Javier Martinez Canillas
2021-11-05 9:00 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-11-05 9:22 ` Jani Nikula
2021-11-05 9:39 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-11-05 9:58 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2021-11-05 9:55 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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