[PATCH 0/2] Allow disabling all native fbdev drivers and only keeping DRM emulation

Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-06-29T22:52:42Z

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
now disable them. But it would simplify the config a lot fo have a single
Kconfig symbol to disable all fbdev drivers.

I've build tested with possible combinations of CONFIG_FB, CONFIG_FB_CORE,
CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION and CONFIG_FB_DEVICE symbols set to 'y' or 'n'.

Patch 1/2 makes the CONFIG_FB split that is mentioned above and patch 2/2
makes DRM fbdev emulation depend on the new FB_CORE symbol instead of FB.

Javier Martinez Canillas (2):
fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols
drm: Make fbdev emulation depend on FB_CORE instead of FB

arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/x86/video/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 62 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile | 14 +++----
6 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

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