[PATCH] ARM: config: Refresh mutli v7
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Thu Jun 10 02:19:45 UTC 2021
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 09:30, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 6:49 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On 08/06/2021 18:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > Right now it is inherent to the driver. It is probably possible to drop support
> > for video overlay devices if CONFIG_FB=n, but it is not something I have time
> > for. It's just a test driver (albeit a very useful test driver), so it is no
> > big deal if it is disabled when CONFIG_FB=n.
>
> Ok, thanks for the reply, makes sense.
>
> I checked what other consequences there are if we disable CONFIG_FB
> and CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y in all the defconfigs now,
> as the patch from Kees did.
>
> It appears that the only other arm32 framebuffers that remain are
> FB_EFI=y, FB_WM8505=y, FB_MX3=m and FB_SIMPLE=y.
FB_SH_MOBILE_LCDC on arm32 too.
> As long as simplefb, efifb and xenfb are needed though, we probably
> want CONFIG_FB=y anyway and leaving VIVID=m with the dependency
> does not cause problems until those are all turned into drm drivers.
I will go ahead with this for the v7 defconfig.
Cheers,
Joel
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