Hi Javier,
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:32 PM Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com wrote:
On 7/27/21 1:17 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Not enabling this, would mean that a platform device to match a driver supporting the EFI GOP framebuffer (e.g: simple{drm,fb} or efifb) will not be registered. Which will lead to not having an early framebuffer.
Do all (embedded) EFI systems have a frame buffer?
That's a good question. I don't know if all EFI firmwares are expected to provide a GOP or not. But even the u-boot EFI stub provides one, if video output is supported by u-boot on that system.
Perhaps SYSFB should be selected by SYSFB_SIMPLEFB, FB_VESA, and FB_EFI?
It's another option, yes. I just thought that the use of select was not encouraged and using depends was less fragile / error prone.
Select is very useful for config symbols that are invisible to the user (i.e. cannot be enabled/disabled manually).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert