From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3700C04A94 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2023 04:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229593AbjGUE7q (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:59:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52390 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229457AbjGUE7o (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:59:44 -0400 Received: from gandalf.ozlabs.org (gandalf.ozlabs.org [150.107.74.76]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19870B3; Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:59:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ellerman.id.au; s=201909; t=1689915579; bh=E8y/g9Khd0fFkgBzOo2hgfNC9FxKvpUwWSNkgdFASms=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=Vz9fUc/RXTu27vyeQvrCGoaE8JdmFqjso1U7IKft3F4+AMIPMbJxbd6+vpUogCok2 jjqvREfJvYqz3QSGYRTfM9NbVcZw6ETTGk+G5ORy8Ef27KmVipGpAru/++iMcP0ZIY irL63A70ZpZtpSAA842FIXFsBi3K9pkiGHMiMA9uGES1k6AQTlIav7DvOXvaXW5lr1 +C0AtN1LzNzfZWs6cqLKzQSLR9CakXGeTo5RmwHO24fURCoJ28UFMNlTF5RfwYFygo JIBkIXyWk0zwzOR6aKsdnuJSg4XvmCPd8c6HNDSu/dKGG51lsM7dl8r9XMYvtkwX6A gBrLXrGghZj8Q== Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4R6cmH4jNJz4wqW; Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:59:27 +1000 (AEST) From: Michael Ellerman To: Arnd Bergmann , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Zimmermann , Helge Deller , Javier Martinez Canillas 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 , 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 1/9] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies In-Reply-To: <20230719123944.3438363-2-arnd@kernel.org> References: <20230719123944.3438363-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20230719123944.3438363-2-arnd@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:59:24 +1000 Message-ID: <87pm4lj1w3.fsf@mail.lhotse> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > The list of dependencies here is phrased as an opt-out, but this is missing > a lot of architectures that don't actually support VGA consoles, and some > of the entries are stale: > > - powerpc used to support VGA consoles in the old arch/ppc codebase, but > the merged arch/powerpc never did Not disputing this, but how did you come to that conclusion? I grepped around and couldn't convince myself whether it can work on powerpc or not. ie. currently it's possible to enable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE and powerpc does have a struct screen_info defined which seems like it would allow vgacon_startup() to complete. My only concern is that someone could be using it with Qemu? cheers