> Le 27 avr. 2023 à 02:11, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+open...@m5p.com> a écrit : > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:50:52AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >> On 2023-04-19, Elliott Mitchell wrote: >>> Direct Rendering Manager is mainly for running X (possibly Wayland >>> too). As OpenWRT is meant for networking devices, there is no need >>> for the support to be present. >> >> That is only partially true, the Linux kernel is making a strong push >> away from deprecated (FB_*) graphics drivers to DRM based ones, with >> kernel based mode setting this is getting more (any) attention for >> console support as well. Even without getting anywhere near X/ Wayland, >> there is more than just a 80x25 tty on real hardware (and even VMs). > > Real x86 hardware often has the capability to use a serial port as > console. The conventional UEFI implementation fully supports this use > case. I can well believe a number of manufacturers disabling the > functionality though. > > VMs *can* have more than a 80x25 tty. By the time you're getting to 4 > or more VMs you should be thinking about disabling the functionality due > to the heavy overhead (unless the OS in the VM doesn't support serial > consoles).
You seem to assume that x86 is only/mainly run on VMs. That is not necessarily the case, and I see no reason to degrade device support that way. Would you mind documenting the measurable gains from your changes, so we have some metric to assess their relevance? Cheers, T _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
