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

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Jul 18 07:13:14 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15 July 2016 at 14:37, Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > Without checking (build and/or grep) it'll be a bit hard to figure out
> > which patches are insufficient. At the end of the day it's up-to you
> > and DRM maintainer(s).
> >
> 
> I've compile tested atmel/nouveau/rcar/rockchip, I'll merge those in drm-misc.
> 
> Since I can't test the others easily, I'll leave them for now.

vmwgfx seems to be the only special case (it doesn't use any of the kms
helpers at all, so that's normal). I merged all the others.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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