Kconfig CONFIG_FB dependency regression

[Thinh Nguyen]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:42 PM Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen at synopsys.com> 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.
> 

Looks like disabling it works. Not sure why config x86_64_defconfig
needs it.

Thanks,
Thinh