Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev changes for 3.8

From: Dave Jones
Date: Sat Dec 15 2012 - 17:24:30 EST


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:11:04PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > Florian, the fbdev maintainer, has been very busy lately, so I offered to send
> > the pull request for fbdev for this merge window.
>
> Pulled. However, with this I get the Kconfig question
>
> OMAP2+ Display Subsystem support (OMAP2_DSS) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
>
> which doesn't make a whole lot of sense on x86-64, unless there's
> something about OMAP2 that I don't know.
>
> So I'd suggest making that OMAP2_DSS be dependent on OMAP2. Or at
> least ARM. Because showing it to anybody else seems insane.
>
> Same goes for FB_OMAP2 for that matter. I realize that it's likely
> nice to get compile testing for this on x86-64 too, but if that's the
> intent, we need to think about it some more. I don't think it's good
> to ask actual normal users questions like this just for compile
> coverage.

This OMAP stuff has been creeping into x86 builds for a while.
Grep from my current build config ..

# CONFIG_OMAP_OCP2SCP is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_OMAP4 is not set
# CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS is not set
# CONFIG_OMAP_USB2 is not set

There was some other arm-ism that does the same that I' currently forgetting,
or maybe that got fixed..

Dave

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