Re: [PATCH 2/2] efi: earlycon: Add support for generic framebuffers and move to fbdev subsystem

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 05:28:19PM +0300, Markuss Broks wrote:
> Add early console support for generic linear framebuffer devices.
> This driver supports probing from cmdline early parameters
> or from the device-tree using information in simple-framebuffer node.
> The EFI functionality should be retained in whole.
> The driver was disabled on ARM because of a bug in early_ioremap
> implementation on ARM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markuss Broks <markuss.broks@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  12 +-
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   5 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig                  |   6 +-
>  drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile                 |   1 -
>  drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c               | 246 --------------
>  drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                   |  11 +
>  drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  drivers/video/fbdev/earlycon.c                | 301 ++++++++++++++++++
>  8 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 256 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/earlycon.c

That should be a rename, not a delete/create, right?

thanks,

greg k-h