Hi Mark, On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 05:22:50PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote: > The arm64 port doesn't provide a screen_info struct for console support > which leads to a build failure with some configurations: > > drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:820: undefined reference to `screen_info' > > This patch adds an empty declaration of screen_info to fix the build > problem. Some additional runtime code is needed to actually make it > useful. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msal...@redhat.com> > --- > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c > index add6ea6..eb9f93a 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c > @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ static const char *cpu_name; > static const char *machine_name; > phys_addr_t __fdt_pointer __initdata; > > +#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE) || defined(CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE) > > +struct screen_info screen_info; > > +#endif >
You may be able to do something similar to the proposal for PARPORT here and factor out the lengthy "depends on" clause for VGA_CONSOLE instead of adding the dummy info. Unfortunately, I can't make any promise of further bonus points :) Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
