kernel/linux.git/drivers/video/console/Kconfig, branch v6.6.141

mdacon: rework dependency list

2025-04-10T12:37:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5bbcc7645f4b244ffb5ac6563fbe9d3d42194447 ] mdacon has roughly the same dependencies as vgacon but expresses them as a negative list instead of a positive list, with the only practical difference being PowerPC/CHRP, which uses vga16fb instead of vgacon. The CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE description advises to only turn it on when vgacon is also used because MDA/Hercules-only systems should be using vgacon instead, so just change the list to enforce that directly for simplicity. The probing was broken from 2002 to 2008, this improves on the fix that was added then: If vgacon is a loadable module, then mdacon cannot be built-in now, and the list of systems that support vgacon is carried over. Fixes: 0b9cf3aa6b1e ("mdacon messing up default vc's - set default to vc13-16 again") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

drm: fix up fbdev Kconfig defaults

2023-09-18T08:52:55+00:00

As a result of the recent Kconfig reworks, the default settings for the framebuffer interfaces changed in unexpected ways: Configurations that leave CONFIG_FB disabled but use DRM now get DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION by default. This also turns on the deprecated /dev/fb device nodes for machines that don't actually want it. In turn, configurations that previously had DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION enabled now only get the /dev/fb front-end but not the more useful framebuffer console, which is not selected any more. We had previously decided that any combination of the three frontends (FB_DEVICE, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE and LOGO) should be selectable, but the new default settings mean that a lot of defconfig files would have to get adapted. Change the defaults back to what they were in Linux 6.5: - Leave DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION turned off unless CONFIG_FB is enabled. Previously this was a hard dependency but now the two are independent. However, configurations that enable CONFIG_FB probably also want to keep the emulation for DRM, while those without FB presumably did that intentionally in the past. - Leave FB_DEVICE turned off for FB=n. Following the same logic, the deprecated option should not automatically get enabled here, most users that had FB turned off in the past do not want it, even if they want the console - Turn the FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE option on if DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION is set to avoid having to change defconfig files that relied on it being selected unconditionally in the past. This also makes sense since both LOGO and FB_DEVICE are now disabled by default for builds without CONFIG_FB, but DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION would make no sense if all three are disabled. Fixes: a5ae331edb02b ("drm: Drop select FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE for DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION") Fixes: 701d2054fa317 ("fbdev: Make support for userspace interfaces configurable") Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230911205338.2385278-1-arnd@kernel.org

fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols

2023-07-22T10:25:04+00:00

Currently the CONFIG_FB option has to be enabled even if no legacy fbdev drivers are needed (e.g: only to have support for framebuffer consoles). The DRM subsystem has a fbdev emulation layer, but depends on CONFIG_FB and so it can only be enabled if that dependency is enabled as well. That means fbdev drivers have to be explicitly disabled if users want to enable CONFIG_FB, only to use fbcon and/or the DRM fbdev emulation layer. This patch introduces a non-visible CONFIG_FB_CORE symbol that could be enabled just to have core support needed for CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION, allowing CONFIG_FB to be disabled (and automatically disabling all the fbdev drivers). Nothing from fb_backlight.o and fbmon.o is used by the DRM fbdev emulation layer so these two objects can be compiled out when CONFIG_FB is disabled. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Helge Deller Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230719081544.741051-4-javierm@redhat.com

video: Move HP PARISC STI core code to shared location

2023-04-20T08:04:51+00:00

STI core files have been located in console and fbdev code. Move the source code and header to the directories for video helpers. Also update the config and build rules such that the code depends on the config symbol CONFIG_STI_CORE, which STI console and STI framebuffer select automatically. Cleans up the console makefile and prepares PARISC to implement fb_is_primary_device() within the arch/ directory. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Helge Deller Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230417125651.25126-12-tzimmermann@suse.de

drm: Implement DRM aperture helpers under video/

2022-06-27T09:07:55+00:00

Implement DRM's aperture helpers under video/ for sharing with other sub-systems. Remove DRM-isms from the interface. The helpers track the ownership of framebuffer apertures and provide hand-over from firmware, such as EFI and VESA, to native graphics drivers. Other subsystems, such as fbdev and vfio, also have to maintain ownership of framebuffer apertures. Moving DRM's aperture helpers to a more public location allows all subsystems to interact with each other and share a common implementation. The aperture helpers are selected by the various firmware drivers within DRM and fbdev, and the VGA text-console driver. The original DRM interface is kept in place for use by DRM drivers. v3: * prefix all interfaces with aperture_ (Javier) * rework and simplify documentation (Javier) * rename struct dev_aperture to struct aperture_range * rebase onto latest DRM * update MAINTAINERS entry Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220622140134.12763-3-tzimmermann@suse.de

nds32: Remove the architecture

2022-03-07T12:54:59+00:00

The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes employees. As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V, and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline support any more. While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/ Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/ Signed-off-by: Alan Kao [arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration

2022-02-02T14:16:26+00:00

Add a config option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION to enable bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the framebuffer console. If disabled, such acceleration will not be used, even if it is supported by the graphics hardware driver. If you plan to use DRM as your main graphics output system, you should disable this option since it will prevent compiling in code which isn't used later on when DRM takes over. For all other configurations, e.g. if none of your graphic cards support DRM (yet), DRM isn't available for your architecture, or you can't be sure that the graphic card in the target system will support DRM, you most likely want to enable this option. In the non-accelerated case (e.g. when DRM is used), the inlined fb_scrollmode() function is hardcoded to return SCROLL_REDRAW and as such the compiler is able to optimize much unneccesary code away. In this v3 patch version I additionally changed the GETVYRES() and GETVXRES() macros to take a pointer to the fbcon_display struct. This fixes the build when console rotation is enabled and helps the compiler again to optimize out code. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-4-deller@gmx.de

um: allow disabling NO_IOMEM

2021-06-17T19:44:50+00:00

Adjust the kconfig a little to allow disabling NO_IOMEM in UML. To make an "allyesconfig" with CONFIG_NO_IOMEM=n build, adjust a few Kconfig things elsewhere and add dummy asm/fb.h and asm/vga.h files. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

parisc/sticon: Add user font support

2020-10-15T06:12:59+00:00

This is a major rework of the sticon (parisc text console) driver in order to support user font support. Usually one want to use the stifb (parisc framebuffer driver) which is based on fbcon and does support fonts and colors, but some old machines (e.g. HP 730 workstations) don't provide a supported stifb graphic card, and for those user fonts are preferred. This patch drops unused code for software cursor and scrollback, enhances the debug output and adds better documentation. The code was tested on various machines with byte-mode and word-mode graphic cards on GSC- and PCI-busses. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

vgacon: remove software scrollback support

2020-09-14T17:06:15+00:00

Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit ebfdfeeae8c0 ("vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling"), but that then made people look more closely at some of this code, and there were more problems on the vgacon side, but also the fbcon software scrollback. We don't really have anybody who maintains this code - probably because nobody actually _uses_ it any more. Sure, people still use both VGA and the framebuffer consoles, but they are no longer the main user interfaces to the kernel, and haven't been for decades, so these kinds of extra features end up bitrotting and not really being used. So rather than try to maintain a likely unused set of code, I'll just aggressively remove it, and see if anybody even notices. Maybe there are people who haven't jumped on the whole GUI badnwagon yet, and think it's just a fad. And maybe those people use the scrollback code. If that turns out to be the case, we can resurrect this again, once we've found the sucker^Wmaintainer for it who actually uses it. Reported-by: NopNop Nop Tested-by: Willy Tarreau Cc: 张云海 Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Willy Tarreau Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds