On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
Oh, and also, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE should be =y
Well, that made it! :)
Seems ok (I have the same thing). Looking at the Kconfig file in
drivers/video/console, I find:
config VGA_CONSOLE
bool "VGA text console" if EMBEDDED || !X86
depends on !ARCH_ACORN && !ARCH_EBSA110 && !4xx && !8xx && !SPARC32 &&
!SPARC64 && !M68K && !PARISC
default y
[...]
Which means that VGA_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are doing an
EMBEDDED or non-x86 configuration. For normal x86 builds, VGA_CONSOLE will
always be available, since it defaults to 'y'
Later on, we find:
config DUMMY_CONSOLE
bool
depends on PROM_CONSOLE!=y || VGA_CONSOLE!=y || SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE!=y
default y
There seems to be a bit of a hole in the logic here, becuase PROM_CONSOLE is
only configurable if you are on SPARC, and SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE is only
configurable if you are on an SGI. So on x86, you are guaranteed both that
VGA_CONSOLE will be =y, which means the middle conditional fails, but both of
the other conditionals are true, so the whole statement is true. So you will
get DUMMY_CONSOLE, and you will not have a chance to configure it since there
is no title after the "bool".
-Richard
Thank you for the explanation.
Cheers,
Jorge
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