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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59D7C07E94 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD250613F8 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230355AbhFDNYR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:24:17 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52798 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230004AbhFDNYP (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:24:15 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 666EB613E7; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:22:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1622812939; bh=iRXTZJ1/j6y4+BU2gyPMGifKfRMorvLra+BpePakUZE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=GWcoC2X3RFj7LIg0etg9XR+Ol4cYUMRjxMauHNEGImBMoOF7MscH3Lk4Hb6THjogO JzU7e9iNBriY/qU+Jk+VCz5o+C+lOYYF8EbbYgh9jsZBcK5nvZXMwjpMpFt86I7vUB Oy2RV60O8ouBKi6GmOLV4gyi7XH2gPYXGeKNvvRI= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:22:16 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede , Peter Robinson , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Daniel Vetter , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Andy Shevchenko , Ard Biesheuvel , Arvind Sankar , Borislav Petkov , Brijesh Singh , Chester Lin , Dinh Nguyen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Joerg Roedel , John Stultz , Josh Poimboeuf , Juergen Gross , Kalle Valo , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Linus Walleij , Nicolas Saenz Julienne , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Sudeep Holla , Thomas Gleixner , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support Message-ID: References: <20210601145912.774054-1-javierm@redhat.com> <20210601145912.774054-2-javierm@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210601145912.774054-2-javierm@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:59:11PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > The x86 architecture has generic support to register a system framebuffer > platform device. It either registers a "simple-framebuffer" if the config > option CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is enabled, or a legacy VGA/VBE/EFI FB device. > > But the code is generic enough to be reused by other architectures and can > be moved out of the arch/x86 directory. > > This will allow to also support the simple{fb,drm} drivers on non-x86 EFI > platforms, such as aarch64 where these drivers are only supported with DT. > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas > --- Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman