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Peter Anvin" , Maarten Lankhorst , x86@kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Maxime Ripard , Borislav Petkov , Peter Robinson , Hans de Goede , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Thomas Zimmermann , Daniel Vetter , Ingo Molnar , David Airlie , Javier Martinez Canillas Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Allow to use DRM fbdev emulation layer with CONFIG_FB disabled Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:00:23 +0200 Message-Id: <20210827100027.1577561-1-javierm@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 using fbcon with the DRM fbdev emulation layer. The reason for doing this is that now with simpledrm we could just boot with simpledrm -> real DRM driver, without needing any legacy fbdev driver (e.g: efifb or simplefb) even for the early console. We want to do that in the Fedora kernel, but currently need to keep option CONFIG_FB enabled and all fbdev drivers explicitly disabled, which makes the configuration harder to maintain. It is a RFC because I'm not that familiar with the fbdev core, but I have tested and works with CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y and CONFIG_FB disabled. This config automatically disables all the fbdev drivers that is our goal. Patch 1/4 is just a clean up, patch 2/4 moves a couple of functions out of fbsysfs.o, that are not related to sysfs attributes creation and finally patch 3/4 makes the fbdev split that is mentioned above. Patch 4/4 makes the DRM fbdev emulation depend on the new FB_CORE symbol instead of FB. This could be done as a follow-up but for completeness is also included in this series. Best regards, Javier Javier Martinez Canillas (4): fbdev: Rename fb_*_device() functions names to match what they do fbdev: Move framebuffer_{alloc,release}() functions to fbmem.c 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 | 57 +++++++++++++--------- drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile | 13 +++-- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c | 77 +----------------------------- include/linux/fb.h | 18 ++++++- 9 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1