From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
javierm@redhat.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 18:05:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZMk7cMgZXgZVobq2@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230707095415.1449376-1-arnd@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> The list of dependencies here is phrased as an opt-out, but this is missing
> a lot of architectures that don't actually support VGA consoles, and some
> of the entries are stale:
>
> - powerpc used to support VGA consoles in the old arch/ppc codebase, but
> the merged arch/powerpc never did
>
> - arm lists footbridge, integrator and netwinder, but netwinder is actually
> part of footbridge, and integrator does not appear to have an actual
> VGA hardware, or list it in its ATAG or DT.
Integrator/AP has PCI, and I have had PCI VGA cards plugged in to that
hardware when I've had it.
Provided any platform sets up PCI in a compatible way, and can run the
VGA's BIOS to initialise the card, then vgacon is supportable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-01 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-07 9:52 [PATCH 1/4] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-07 9:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] vgacon: rework screen_info #ifdef checks Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-07 13:40 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-07-07 14:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-07 15:27 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-07-08 14:11 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2023-07-07 9:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-07 11:33 ` Linus Walleij
2023-07-07 14:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-16 21:22 ` Linus Walleij
2023-07-07 13:41 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-07-07 9:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] vgacon, arch/*: remove unused screen_info definitions Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-07 13:42 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-07-10 3:38 ` Dinh Nguyen
2023-07-10 4:08 ` Max Filippov
2023-07-12 14:46 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-07-13 0:33 ` Guo Ren
2023-07-07 13:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies Javier Martinez Canillas
2023-07-07 15:07 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2023-08-01 16:55 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2023-08-01 17:05 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-08-04 20:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
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