Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] s390/setup : enable display support for KVM guest

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Mon Feb 19 2018 - 14:55:49 EST


On 19.02.2018 16:47, Farhan Ali wrote:
> The S390 architecture does not support any graphics hardware,
> but with the latest support for Virtio GPU in Linux and Virtio
> GPU emulation in QEMU, it's possible to enable graphics for
> S390 using the Virtio GPU device.
>
> To enable display we need to enable the Linux Virtual Terminal (VT)
> layer for S390. But the VT subsystem initializes quite early
> at boot so we need a dummy console driver till the Virtio GPU
> driver is initialized and we can run the framebuffer console.
>
> The framebuffer console over a Virtio GPU device can be run
> in combination with the serial SCLP console (default on S390).
> The SCLP console can still be accessed by management applications
> (eg: via Libvirt's virsh console).
>
> Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++
> drivers/tty/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>