Right, the logic is that the driver really is for embedded (i.e. very special purpose) use. It should not be selected unless you really know what you're doing or are building a very particular product. If you can think of a better way of preventing users and distros from accidentally selecting this, then please send a patch. Jesse Dave Airlie wrote: >>> I am worried that the intelfb driver depends on EMBEDDED. I consider>> this an abuse of the EMBEDDED configuration option, which as I>> understand it was originally meant to expose fine-tuning options,>> rather than to arbitrarily disable drivers when not selected.>>Since we merged a kms driver for Intel hw that supports all intel chipsets>and more importantly all the outputs on Intel chipsets, intelfb should>be considered legacy at the least and broken on > 50% of intel hw.>>We left it in in that most ppl who wanted it were using it in embedded >configs, whereas for most users it just doesn't work, like I don't thinkit>supports LVDS which means loading it on a laptop will trash it.>>Dave>>>> >> So I suggest that we drop this dependency now.>> >> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare >> Cc: Jesse Barnes >> Cc: Dave Airlie >> --->> Jesse, in the original commit, you wrote that intelfb was "really a>> special purpose embedded driver". It looks like a perfectly standard>> framebuffer driver to me, which means that it may have users beyond>> embedded. For example I always prefer framebuffer over X for my>> servers. Or am I missing something and intelfb is really special?>> >> drivers/video/Kconfig | 2 +->> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)>> >> --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/video/Kconfig 2009-12-03 08:48:34.000000000 +0100>> +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/video/Kconfig 2009-12-11 10:57:43.000000000 +0100>> @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ config FB_CARILLO_RANCH>> >> config FB_INTEL>> tristate "Intel 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/945G/945GM/965G/965GM support (EXPERIMENTAL)">> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && FB && PCI && X86 && AGP_INTEL && EMBEDDED>> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && FB && PCI && X86 && AGP_INTEL>> select FB_MODE_HELPERS>> select FB_CFB_FILLRECT>> select FB_CFB_COPYAREA>> >> >{.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I