Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] arm64: efi: Export screen_info

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Mar 16 2020 - 04:20:57 EST


On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 4:36 PM Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Hyper-V frame buffer driver may be built as a module, and
> it needs access to screen_info. So export screen_info.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is there any chance of using a more modern KMS based driver for the screen
than the old fbdev subsystem? I had hoped to one day completely remove
support for the old CONFIG_VIDEO_FBDEV and screen_info from modern
architectures.

Arnd