Re: [PATCH v1 2/7] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: enable fb

[Fabio Estevam]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:33 PM Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 26.08.21 um 21:03 schrieb Fabio Estevam:
> > Hi Marcel,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:04 AM Marcel Ziswiler <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Enable CONFIG_FB which is nowadays required for CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_LVDS,
> >> CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE, CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SEIKO_43WVF1G,
> >> CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS, CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PWM, CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_GPIO,
> >> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE, CONFIG_LOGO, CONFIG_FONTS, CONFIG_FONT_8x8
> >> and CONFIG_FONT_8x16.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Yes, I noticed that I had no LCD output on an imx6ull-evk board and
> > after selecting CONFIG_FB it works again.
>
> this was caused by:
>
> f611b1e7624c ("drm: Avoid circular dependencies for CONFIG_FB")

Thanks, Stefan.

Marcel, I think you could resend this one with the Fixes tag and
hopefully it could be applied as a fix for 5.14-rc.

We can consider it as a regression fix, because it restores display
support on many i.MX boards on 5.14-rc.

Thanks