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[92.176.231.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m1-20020adffe41000000b003143853590csm1617613wrs.104.2023.07.03.02.47.08 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:47:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: Thomas Zimmermann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Arnd Bergmann , Daniel Vetter , David Airlie , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] drm: Improve Kconfig symbol prompt and help texts In-Reply-To: <96d91373-f955-2209-5cd7-7e1ecacf73f9@suse.de> References: <20230702191529.768248-1-javierm@redhat.com> <20230702191529.768248-2-javierm@redhat.com> <96d91373-f955-2209-5cd7-7e1ecacf73f9@suse.de> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:47:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87lefxz5r8.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Zimmermann writes: > Hi Javier > > Am 02.07.23 um 21:15 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas: [...] >> - Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) >> - introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select >> - the module that's right for your graphics card from the list below. >> - These modules provide support for synchronization, security, and >> - DMA transfers. Please see for more >> - details. You should also select and configure AGP >> - (/dev/agpgart) support if it is available for your platform. >> + Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), >> + that is composed of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and Kernel >> + Mode Settings (KMS) subsystems. > > It's slightly off, as KMS is part of DRM. I'd just drop any mention of KMS. > > But TBH instead of these small fixes, we should first discuss how we Right, I'll just drop this patch and we can cleanup the text later. > organize the menu structures. For example, the DRM drivers are all > listed in the graphics menu. They might as well go into a DRM menu. > > The framebuffer will be split into drivers and 'core'. The core options > (FB_DEVICE, FIRMWARE_EDID, FB_*_ENDIAN) probably deserve a separate menu. > Yes, that is what we agreed with Arnd and Geert. To add a new Kconfig in drivers/video/fbdev/core/Kconfig and drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig source it. > And there's the framebuffer console, which has its own menu. We need to > show it even if only DRM is supported. Plus the other consoles. > > I'm not sure what drivers/auxdisplay is, it might fit here as well. > That seems to be for simple character-based displays. And agree that could be in framebuffer console as well. So we should improve the menu structure before attempting to complicate with more options like adding the FB_CORE. > It would be nice to rethink the overall menu. > > Best regards > Thomas > -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Core Platforms Red Hat