Re: [PATCH LOCAL] arm64: renesas: defconfig: Restore graphical consoles

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Geert,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:19:33PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> As of commit f611b1e7624ccdbd ("drm: Avoid circular dependencies for
> CONFIG_FB"), CONFIG_FB is no longer auto-enabled.
> 
> Restore support for graphical consoles by enabling it explicitly in the
> defconfig for Renesas R-Car Gen3 and RZ/G2 systems.
> 
> Fixes: f611b1e7624ccdbd ("drm: Avoid circular dependencies for CONFIG_FB")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
> Not intended for upstream merge.

Why not ? We have no KMS console driver yet, FB is currently the only
option.

> To be queued in topic/renesas-defconfig, unless the rcar-du experts
> consider CONFIG_FB to be no longer needed nor wanted on systems where
> graphics are provided by a DRM driver.
> ---
>  arch/arm64/configs/renesas_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/renesas_defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/renesas_defconfig
> index 27b55fcc3bbca4dc..2fc00cadc30eb26b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/renesas_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/renesas_defconfig
> @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ CONFIG_DRM_I2C_ADV7511_AUDIO=y
>  CONFIG_DRM_DW_HDMI_AHB_AUDIO=y
>  CONFIG_DRM_DW_HDMI_I2S_AUDIO=y
>  CONFIG_DRM_DW_HDMI_CEC=y
> +CONFIG_FB=y
>  CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
>  CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y
>  CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PWM=y

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart