linux-stable.git/drivers/video/console/Kconfig, branch linux-4.4.y

vgacon: remove software scrollback support

2020-09-23T06:44:25+00:00

commit 973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 upstream.

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'fbdev-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux

2015-09-08T23:42:55+00:00

Pull fbdev updates from Tomi Valkeinen:
 "Minor fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'fbdev-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux:
  video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: remove useless include
  video: fbdev: pxa168fb: Use devm_clk_get
  fbdev: ssd1307fb: fix error return code
  fbdev: fix snprintf() limit in show_bl_curve()
  video: fbdev: s3c-fb: Constify platform_device_id
  video: fbdev: atmel: fix warning for const return value
  video: fbdev: Drop owner assignment from platform_driver
  video: fbdev: Drop owner assignment from i2c_driver
  fbdev: remove unnecessary memset in vfb
  framebuffer: disable vgacon on microblaze arch
  fbdev: udlfb: remove unneeded initialization in few places
  fbdev: Allow compile test of GPIO consumers if !GPIOLIB
  fbdev: fix cea_modes array size

drivers/video/concole: add negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE on ARC

2015-09-04T23:54:41+00:00

Architectures which support VGA console must define screen_info
structurture from "uapi/linux/screen_info.h".  Otherwise undefined
symbol error occurs.  Usually it's defined in "setup.c" for each
architecture.

If an architecture does not support VGA console (ARC's case) there are 2
ways: define a dummy instance of screen_info or add a negative
dependency for VGA_CONSOLE in to prevent selecting this option.

I've implemented the second way.  However the best solution is to add
HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE option for targets which support VGA console.  Then
turn off VGA_CONSOLE by default and add dependency to HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE.
But right now it's better to just add a negative dependency for ARC and
then consider how to collaborate about this issue with maintainers of
other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard 
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen 
Cc: Jaya Kumar 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

framebuffer: disable vgacon on microblaze arch

2015-08-20T07:53:25+00:00

Fix an allmodconfig link failer on microblaze:
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `vgacon_save_screen':
  drivers/video/console/.tmp_vgacon.o:(.text+0x8fc10):
    undefined reference to `screen_info'

Disable vgacon on microblaze because the symbol
  struct screen_info screen_info;
is not defined for the microblaze arch.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange 
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen

console/dummy: Move screen size selection from CPP to Kconfig

2015-01-13T12:54:48+00:00

PA-RISC already handled the dummy console screen size selection in
Kconfig, so generalize this to other platforms.

ARM keeps on using screen_info, which is filled in by
platform-specific code, or from ATAGS.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen

video: vgacon: Don't build on arm64

2014-01-17T08:57:45+00:00

arm64 is unlikely to have a VGA console and does not export screen_info
causing build failures if the driver is build, for example in all*config.
Add a dependency on !ARM64 to prevent this.

This list is getting quite long, it may be easier to depend on a symbol
which architectures that do support the driver can select.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown 
[tomi.valkeinen@ti.com: moved && to first modified line]
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen

fbdev: fbcon: select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING

2013-08-02T23:17:51+00:00

fbdev provides framebuffer hotplugging, hence, we need to allow fbcon to
unbind from framebuffers. Unfortunately, fbcon_fb_unbind() cannot unbind
from the last framebuffer, unless console-unbinding is supported.

Fixing fbcon_unbind() to return 0 caused some horrible NULL-derefs in the
VT layer and I couldn't figure out why. Hence, lets just require
console-unbinding so fbdev hotplugging works with fbcon.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375445127-15480-9-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

lib: Move fonts from drivers/video/console/ to lib/fonts/

2013-06-28T08:28:22+00:00

Several drivers need font support independent of CONFIG_VT, cfr. commit
9cbce8d7e1dae0744ca4f68d62aa7de18196b6f4, "console/font: Refactor font
support code selection logic").
Hence move the fonts and their support logic from drivers/video/console/ to
its own library directory lib/fonts/.
This also allows to limit processing of drivers/video/console/Makefile to
CONFIG_VT=y again.

[Kevin Hilman : Update arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven

console/font: Refactor font support code selection logic

2013-06-23T13:55:16+00:00

The current Makefile rules to build font support are messy and buggy.
Replace them by Kconfig rules:
  - Introduce CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT, which controls the building of all font
    code,
  - Select CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT for all drivers that use fonts,
  - Select CONFIG_FONT_8x16 for all drivers that default to the VGA8x16
    font,
  - Drop the bogus console dependency for CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVI,
  - Always process drivers/video/console/Makefile, as some drivers need
    fonts even if CONFIG_VT is not set.

This fixes (if CONFIG_SOLO6X10=y and there are no built-in console
drivers):

drivers/built-in.o: In function `solo_osd_print':
drivers/staging/media/solo6x10/solo6x10-enc.c:144: undefined reference to `.find_font'

This fixes (if CONFIG_VT=n):

drivers/built-in.o: In function `vivi_init':
vivi.c:(.init.text+0x1a3da): undefined reference to `find_font'

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil  [original part]
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap  [drivers/video/Makefile]

console: Disable VGA text console support on cris

2013-06-16T11:47:43+00:00

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven