Re: Kconfig CONFIG_FB dependency regression

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Feb 09 2022 - 02:07:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:42 PM Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 2/8/22 12:10, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
> >> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>> On 2/3/22 19:21, Thinh Nguyen wrote:

> Ah.. It's because I don't use old.config as the base config. I use
> x86_64_defconfig as the base plus some additional configs I need, and it
> has CONFIG_FB_EFI set by default.

Does it hang if you just disable CONFIG_FB_EFI on an otherwise working
kernel? This is supposed to only disable the framebuffer, but it could be
the actual cause if something else depends on its presence.

Arnd