[PATCH 00/21] drm: make fbdev support really optional

Tobias Jakobi tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jul 15 13:37:55 UTC 2016


Hello Emil,

Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 15 July 2016 at 13:47, Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> as request by Daniel here (http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg112592.html) I went ahead and also cleaned up the other Kconfig files. I have mostly compile tested the changes on an ARMv7 system (COMPILE_TEST).
>>
> Yay :-) IIRC some drivers don't fully use the fb_helpers (for example
> vmwgfx still references the cfb_* API), so they should be updated as
> well.
I can only do this on ARM atm, so I suggest to just drop insufficient
patches.

With best wishes,
Tobias

> A few quick greps (check the exported symbols in drm_fb_helper.c and
> you'll see the respective fbdev/wrapper functions) and some build
> warning/errors will show you the way.
> 
> Regards,
> Emil
> 



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