[PATCH 2/2] efi: earlycon: Add support for generic framebuffers and move to fbdev subsystem

Markuss Broks markuss.broks at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 16:26:07 UTC 2022


Hi Greg,

On 7/28/22 18:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 05:52:04PM +0300, Markuss Broks wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 7/28/22 17:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 05:28:19PM +0300, Markuss Broks wrote:
>>>> Add early console support for generic linear framebuffer devices.
>>>> This driver supports probing from cmdline early parameters
>>>> or from the device-tree using information in simple-framebuffer node.
>>>> The EFI functionality should be retained in whole.
>>>> The driver was disabled on ARM because of a bug in early_ioremap
>>>> implementation on ARM.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Markuss Broks <markuss.broks at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  12 +-
>>>>    MAINTAINERS                                   |   5 +
>>>>    drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig                  |   6 +-
>>>>    drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile                 |   1 -
>>>>    drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c               | 246 --------------
>>>>    drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                   |  11 +
>>>>    drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile                  |   1 +
>>>>    drivers/video/fbdev/earlycon.c                | 301 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    8 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 256 deletions(-)
>>>>    delete mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c
>>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/earlycon.c
>>>
>>> That should be a rename, not a delete/create, right?
>>
>> Should this change be split into two separate commits,
>> one for moving the file and the second for making changes?
> 
> Git will show a rename and modification properly, if you use -M to git
> format-patch, so it should be fine.

It appears that there are so many changes Git would refuse to make it a 
"move" no matter what I do. What should be done here: should it be two 
separate commits for move/change or should it just be kept as delete/create?

- Markuss


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