Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio/pci: Remove console drivers
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:44:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220609154416.676b1068.alex.williamson@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220609154102.5cb1d3ca.alex.williamson@redhat.com>

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:41:02 -0600
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 11:13:22 +0200
> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Please have a look at the attached patch. It moves the aperture helpers 
> > to a location common to the various possible users (DRM, fbdev, vfio). 
> > The DRM interfaces remain untouched for now.  The patch should provide 
> > what you need in vfio and also serve our future use cases for graphics 
> > drivers. If possible, please create your patch on top of it.  
> 
> Looks good to me, this of course makes the vfio change quite trivial.
> One change I'd request:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> index 40c50fa2dd70..7f3c44e1538b 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config VGA_CONSOLE
>  	depends on !4xx && !PPC_8xx && !SPARC && !M68K && !PARISC &&  !SUPERH && \
>  		(!ARM || ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_NETWINDER) && \
>  		!ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !S390 && !UML
> +	select APERTURE_HELPERS if (DRM || FB || VFIO_PCI)
>  	default y
>  	help
>  	  Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
> 
> This should be VFIO_PCI_CORE.  Thanks,

Also, whatever tree this lands in, I'd appreciate a topic branch being
made available so I can more easily get the vfio change in on the same
release.  Thanks,

Alex