Turns out, people do not read help-texts of new config-options and enable them nonetheless. So several reports came in with X86_SYSFB=y and FB_SIMPLE=n, which in almost all situations prevents firmware-fbs from being probed.
X86_SYSFB clearly states that it turns legacy vesa/efi framebuffers into a format compatible to simplefb (and does nothing else..). So to avoid further complaints about missing gfx-support during boot, simply depend on FB_SIMPLE now. As FB_SIMPLE is disabled by default and usually only enabled on selected ARM architectures, x86 users should thus never see the X86_SYSFB config-option. And if they do, everything is fine as simplefb will be available.
Note that most of the sysfb code is enabled independently of X86_SYSFB. The config option only selects a compatibility mode for simplefb. It was introduced to ease the transition to SimpleDRM and disabling fbdev. As this is still ongoing, there's no need for non-developers to care for X86_SYSFB so we can safely hide it behind FB_SIMPLE.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann dh.herrmann@gmail.com --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 0952ecd..098228e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2299,6 +2299,7 @@ source "drivers/rapidio/Kconfig"
config X86_SYSFB bool "Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer" + depends on FB_SIMPLE help Firmwares often provide initial graphics framebuffers so the BIOS, bootloader or kernel can show basic video-output during boot for