console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver

The mdacon driver supports using ISA MDA or Hercules-compatible display
adapters as a secondary text console. This was commonly used in the
1990s and ear

console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver

The mdacon driver supports using ISA MDA or Hercules-compatible display
adapters as a secondary text console. This was commonly used in the
1990s and earlier for debugging software which took over the primary
display. It is highly unlikely anyone is doing so nowadays because
serial consoles and much better methods of debugging exist.

The driver is not enabled by any defconfig, nor any of the
dozens of distro configs collected at [1]. It has been relegated to VTs
13-16 since commit 0b9cf3aa6b1e ("mdacon messing up default vc's - set
default to vc13-16 again") in Linux 2.6.27 (and before Linux 2.5.53 -
see the link in the message of the above commit). The change in 2.6.27
was done because it was incorrectly detecting non-MDA adapters as MDA
and taking over all VTs, rendering them unusable.

Furthermore, vgacon supports using MDA/Hercules-compatible adapters as
the primary text console, so any systems with only one of these
adapters were already using vgacon and will not experience any loss in
functionality from the removal of this driver.

Given all of these factors, the mdacon driver is likely entirely
unused. Remove it.

[1] https://github.com/nyrahul/linux-kernel-configs/tree/f0bee86a135a0406ea427855f52702dd00d770f9

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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mdacon: rework dependency list

mdacon has roughly the same dependencies as vgacon but expresses them
as a negative list instead of a positive list, with the only practical
difference being PowerPC/C

mdacon: rework dependency list

mdacon has roughly the same dependencies as vgacon but expresses them
as a negative list instead of a positive list, with the only practical
difference being PowerPC/CHRP, which uses vga16fb instead of vgacon.

The CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE description advises to only turn it on when vgacon
is also used because MDA/Hercules-only systems should be using vgacon
instead, so just change the list to enforce that directly for simplicity.

The probing was broken from 2002 to 2008, this improves on the fix
that was added then: If vgacon is a loadable module, then mdacon
cannot be built-in now, and the list of systems that support vgacon
is carried over.

Fixes: 0b9cf3aa6b1e ("mdacon messing up default vc's - set default to vc13-16 again")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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dummycon: fix default rows/cols

dummycon fails to build on ARM/footbridge when the VGA console is
disabled, since I got the dependencies slightly wrong in a previous
patch:

drivers/video/console/du

dummycon: fix default rows/cols

dummycon fails to build on ARM/footbridge when the VGA console is
disabled, since I got the dependencies slightly wrong in a previous
patch:

drivers/video/console/dummycon.c: In function 'dummycon_init':
drivers/video/console/dummycon.c:27:25: error: 'CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE'?
27 | #define DUMMY_COLUMNS CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS
drivers/video/console/dummycon.c:28:25: error: 'CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE'?
28 | #define DUMMY_ROWS CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS

This only showed up after many thousand randconfig builds on Arm, and
doesn't matter in practice, but should still be fixed. Address it by
using the default row/columns on footbridge after all in that corner
case.

Fixes: 4293b0925149 ("dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202409151512.LML1slol-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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dummycon: only build module if there are users

Dummycon is used as a fallback conswitchp for vgacon and fbcon
in the VT code, and there are no references to it if all three
are disabled, so just lea

dummycon: only build module if there are users

Dummycon is used as a fallback conswitchp for vgacon and fbcon
in the VT code, and there are no references to it if all three
are disabled, so just leave it out of the kernel image for
configurations without those.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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vgacon: drop IA64 reference in VGA_CONSOLE dependency list

Commit e9e3300b6e77 ("vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies") turns the
dependencies into a positive list of supported architectures, which
i

vgacon: drop IA64 reference in VGA_CONSOLE dependency list

Commit e9e3300b6e77 ("vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies") turns the
dependencies into a positive list of supported architectures, which
includes the IA64 architecture, but in the meantime, this architecture is
removed in commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture").

Drop the reference to IA64 architecture in the dependency list of the
VGA_CONSOLE config definition.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231110114400.30882-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge

The dummycon default console size used to be determined by architecture,
but now this is a Kconfig setting on everything except ARM. Tracing this

dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge

The dummycon default console size used to be determined by architecture,
but now this is a Kconfig setting on everything except ARM. Tracing this
back in the historic git trees, this was used to match the size of VGA
console or VGA framebuffer on early machines, but nowadays that code is
no longer used, except probably on the old footbridge/netwinder since
that is the only one that supports vgacon.

On machines with a framebuffer, booting with DT so far results in always
using the hardcoded 80x30 size in dummycon, while on ATAGS the setting
can come from a bootloader specific override. Both seem to be worse
choices than the Kconfig setting, since the actual text size for fbcon
also depends on the selected font.

Make this work the same way as everywhere else and use the normal
Kconfig setting, except for the footbridge with vgacon, which keeps
using the traditional code. If vgacon is disabled, footbridge can
also ignore the setting. This means the screen_info only has to be
provided when either vgacon or EFI are enabled now.

To limit the amount of surprises on Arm, change the Kconfig default
to the previously used 80x30 setting instead of the usual 80x25.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-4-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies

The list of dependencies here is phrased as an opt-out, but this is missing
a lot of architectures that don't actually support VGA consoles, and some
of the entri

vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies

The list of dependencies here is phrased as an opt-out, but this is missing
a lot of architectures that don't actually support VGA consoles, and some
of the entries are stale:

- powerpc used to support VGA consoles in the old arch/ppc codebase, but
the merged arch/powerpc never did

- arm lists footbridge, integrator and netwinder, but netwinder is actually
part of footbridge, and integrator does not appear to have an actual
VGA hardware, or list it in its ATAG or DT.

- mips has a few platforms (malta, sibyte, and sni) that initialize
screen_info, on everything else the console is selected but cannot
actually work.

- csky, hexgagon, loongarch, nios2, riscv and xtensa are not listed
in the opt-out table and declare a screen_info to allow building
vga_con, but this cannot work because the console is never selected.

Replace this with an opt-in table that lists only the platforms that
remain. This is effectively x86, plus a couple of historic workstation
and server machines that reused parts of the x86 system architecture.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-2-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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drm: fix up fbdev Kconfig defaults

As a result of the recent Kconfig reworks, the default settings for the
framebuffer interfaces changed in unexpected ways:

Configurations that leave CONFIG_FB dis

drm: fix up fbdev Kconfig defaults

As a result of the recent Kconfig reworks, the default settings for the
framebuffer interfaces changed in unexpected ways:

Configurations that leave CONFIG_FB disabled but use DRM now get
DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION by default. This also turns on the deprecated /dev/fb
device nodes for machines that don't actually want it.

In turn, configurations that previously had DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION enabled
now only get the /dev/fb front-end but not the more useful framebuffer
console, which is not selected any more.

We had previously decided that any combination of the three frontends
(FB_DEVICE, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE and LOGO) should be selectable, but the
new default settings mean that a lot of defconfig files would have to
get adapted.

Change the defaults back to what they were in Linux 6.5:

- Leave DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION turned off unless CONFIG_FB
is enabled. Previously this was a hard dependency but now the two are
independent. However, configurations that enable CONFIG_FB probably
also want to keep the emulation for DRM, while those without FB
presumably did that intentionally in the past.

- Leave FB_DEVICE turned off for FB=n. Following the same
logic, the deprecated option should not automatically get enabled
here, most users that had FB turned off in the past do not want it,
even if they want the console

- Turn the FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE option on if
DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION is set to avoid having to change defconfig
files that relied on it being selected unconditionally in the past.
This also makes sense since both LOGO and FB_DEVICE are now disabled
by default for builds without CONFIG_FB, but DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
would make no sense if all three are disabled.

Fixes: a5ae331edb02b ("drm: Drop select FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE for DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION")
Fixes: 701d2054fa317 ("fbdev: Make support for userspace interfaces configurable")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230911205338.2385278-1-arnd@kernel.org

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fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols

Currently the CONFIG_FB option has to be enabled even if no legacy fbdev
drivers are needed (e.g: only to have support for framebuffer con

fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols

Currently the CONFIG_FB option has to be enabled even if no legacy fbdev
drivers are needed (e.g: only to have support for framebuffer consoles).

The DRM subsystem has a fbdev emulation layer, but depends on CONFIG_FB
and so it can only be enabled if that dependency is enabled as well.

That means fbdev drivers have to be explicitly disabled if users want to
enable CONFIG_FB, only to use fbcon and/or the DRM fbdev emulation layer.

This patch introduces a non-visible CONFIG_FB_CORE symbol that could be
enabled just to have core support needed for CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION,
allowing CONFIG_FB to be disabled (and automatically disabling all the
fbdev drivers).

Nothing from fb_backlight.o and fbmon.o is used by the DRM fbdev emulation
layer so these two objects can be compiled out when CONFIG_FB is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230719081544.741051-4-javierm@redhat.com

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video: Move HP PARISC STI core code to shared location

STI core files have been located in console and fbdev code. Move
the source code and header to the directories for video helpers.
Also update t

video: Move HP PARISC STI core code to shared location

STI core files have been located in console and fbdev code. Move
the source code and header to the directories for video helpers.
Also update the config and build rules such that the code depends
on the config symbol CONFIG_STI_CORE, which STI console and STI
framebuffer select automatically.

Cleans up the console makefile and prepares PARISC to implement
fb_is_primary_device() within the arch/ directory. No functional
changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230417125651.25126-12-tzimmermann@suse.de

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drm: Implement DRM aperture helpers under video/

Implement DRM's aperture helpers under video/ for sharing with other
sub-systems. Remove DRM-isms from the interface. The helpers track
the ownership

drm: Implement DRM aperture helpers under video/

Implement DRM's aperture helpers under video/ for sharing with other
sub-systems. Remove DRM-isms from the interface. The helpers track
the ownership of framebuffer apertures and provide hand-over from
firmware, such as EFI and VESA, to native graphics drivers.

Other subsystems, such as fbdev and vfio, also have to maintain ownership
of framebuffer apertures. Moving DRM's aperture helpers to a more public
location allows all subsystems to interact with each other and share a
common implementation.

The aperture helpers are selected by the various firmware drivers within
DRM and fbdev, and the VGA text-console driver.

The original DRM interface is kept in place for use by DRM drivers.

v3:
* prefix all interfaces with aperture_ (Javier)
* rework and simplify documentation (Javier)
* rename struct dev_aperture to struct aperture_range
* rebase onto latest DRM
* update MAINTAINERS entry

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220622140134.12763-3-tzimmermann@suse.de

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nds32: Remove the architecture

The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replac

nds32: Remove the architecture

The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.

As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.

While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration

Add a config option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION to
enable bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the framebuffer
con

fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration

Add a config option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION to
enable bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the framebuffer
console. If disabled, such acceleration will not be used, even if it is
supported by the graphics hardware driver.

If you plan to use DRM as your main graphics output system, you should
disable this option since it will prevent compiling in code which isn't
used later on when DRM takes over.

For all other configurations, e.g. if none of your graphic cards support
DRM (yet), DRM isn't available for your architecture, or you can't be
sure that the graphic card in the target system will support DRM, you
most likely want to enable this option.

In the non-accelerated case (e.g. when DRM is used), the inlined
fb_scrollmode() function is hardcoded to return SCROLL_REDRAW and as such the
compiler is able to optimize much unneccesary code away.

In this v3 patch version I additionally changed the GETVYRES() and GETVXRES()
macros to take a pointer to the fbcon_display struct. This fixes the build when
console rotation is enabled and helps the compiler again to optimize out code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-4-deller@gmx.de

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um: allow disabling NO_IOMEM

Adjust the kconfig a little to allow disabling NO_IOMEM in UML. To
make an "allyesconfig" with CONFIG_NO_IOMEM=n build, adjust a few
Kconfig things elsewhere and add dum

um: allow disabling NO_IOMEM

Adjust the kconfig a little to allow disabling NO_IOMEM in UML. To
make an "allyesconfig" with CONFIG_NO_IOMEM=n build, adjust a few
Kconfig things elsewhere and add dummy asm/fb.h and asm/vga.h files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

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parisc/sticon: Add user font support

This is a major rework of the sticon (parisc text console) driver in
order to support user font support.

Usually one want to use the stifb (parisc framebuffer d

parisc/sticon: Add user font support

This is a major rework of the sticon (parisc text console) driver in
order to support user font support.

Usually one want to use the stifb (parisc framebuffer driver) which is
based on fbcon and does support fonts and colors, but some old machines
(e.g. HP 730 workstations) don't provide a supported stifb graphic card,
and for those user fonts are preferred.

This patch drops unused code for software cursor and scrollback,
enhances the debug output and adds better documentation.

The code was tested on various machines with byte-mode and word-mode
graphic cards on GSC- and PCI-busses.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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vgacon: remove software scrollback support

Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit
ebfdfeeae8c0 ("vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling"),
but that then ma

vgacon: remove software scrollback support

Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit
ebfdfeeae8c0 ("vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling"),
but that then made people look more closely at some of this code, and
there were more problems on the vgacon side, but also the fbcon software
scrollback.

We don't really have anybody who maintains this code - probably because
nobody actually _uses_ it any more. Sure, people still use both VGA and
the framebuffer consoles, but they are no longer the main user
interfaces to the kernel, and haven't been for decades, so these kinds
of extra features end up bitrotting and not really being used.

So rather than try to maintain a likely unused set of code, I'll just
aggressively remove it, and see if anybody even notices. Maybe there
are people who haven't jumped on the whole GUI badnwagon yet, and think
it's just a fad. And maybe those people use the scrollback code.

If that turns out to be the case, we can resurrect this again, once
we've found the sucker^Wmaintainer for it who actually uses it.

Reported-by: NopNop Nop <nopitydays@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: 张云海 <zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasi

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2020-02-10' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next

drm-misc-next for 5.7:

UAPI Changes:
- lima: Add support for heap buffers

Cross-subsystem Changes

Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2020-02-10' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next

drm-misc-next for 5.7:

UAPI Changes:
- lima: Add support for heap buffers

Cross-subsystem Changes:

Core Changes:
- Implement mode_config mode_valid for memory constrained drivers
- Bus format negociation between bridges
- Consolidate fake vblank events for drivers without vblank interrupts
- drm/bufs: dma_alloc related cleanups
- drm/dp_mst: Various fixes
- drm/print: New drm_device based print helpers
- Thomas is a drm-misc maintainer now!

Driver Changes:
- DPMS cleanups for atomic drivers
- Removal of owner field in SPI tinydrm drivers
- Removal of explicit dependency on DT for tinydrm drivers
- Conversion to YAML schemas for DT bindings
- tidss: New driver
- virtio: various reworks and fixes
- Our usual dozen or so new panels or bridges

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

From: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200210093421.xu4sofldm6wm6xq6@gilmour.lan

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video: Fix Kconfig indentation

Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in
coding style with command like:
$ sed -e 's/^ /\t/' -i */Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof K

video: Fix Kconfig indentation

Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in
coding style with command like:
$ sed -e 's/^ /\t/' -i */Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191120133838.13132-1-krzk@kernel.org

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console/dummycon: Remove bogus depends on from DUMMY_CONSOLE

Since commit [1] consolidated console configuration in
drivers/video/console, DUMMY_CONSOLE has always been enabled, since the
dependency

console/dummycon: Remove bogus depends on from DUMMY_CONSOLE

Since commit [1] consolidated console configuration in
drivers/video/console, DUMMY_CONSOLE has always been enabled, since the
dependency is always satisfied.

There is no point in trying to allow it to be configured out, since
(a) it's tiny, and (b) if VT_CONSOLE is enabled, we must have a working
console driver by the time con_init(vt.c) runs, and only dummycon is
guaranteed to work (vgacon may be configured in, but that doesn't mean
we have a VGA device).

So just remove the fake dependency.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit?id=31d2a7d36d6989c714b792ec00358ada24c039e7

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218214506.49252-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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fbcon: Only allow FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER if fbdev is builtin

Having FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER with fbdev+fbcon being build
as a module does not make much sense.

Having FR

fbcon: Only allow FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER if fbdev is builtin

Having FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER with fbdev+fbcon being build
as a module does not make much sense.

Having FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER only when fbdev+fbcon are
builtin was always the intention, hence the =y checks but they were
checking the wrong option, fbcon is build as part of fb.ko, so we must
check for FB=y.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

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console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover

Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.

This beh

console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover

Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.

This behavior is undesirable in cases where a smooth graphical bootup is
desired, in such cases we typically want the contents of the framebuffer
(typically a vendor logo) to stay in place as is.

The current solution for this problem (on embedded systems) is to not
enable fbcon.

This commit adds a new FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER config option,
which when enabled defers fbcon taking over the console from the dummy
console until the first text is displayed on the console. Together with the
"quiet" kernel commandline option, this allows fbcon to still be used
together with a smooth graphical bootup, having it take over the console as
soon as e.g. an error message is logged.

Note the choice to detect the first console output in the dummycon driver,
rather then handling this entirely inside the fbcon code, was made after
2 failed attempts to handle this entirely inside the fbcon code. The fbcon
code is woven quite tightly into the console code, making this to only
feasible option.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

- Improvements for the spectre defense:
* The spectre related co

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

- Improvements for the spectre defense:
* The spectre related code is consolidated to a single file
nospec-branch.c
* Automatic enable/disable for the spectre v2 defenses (expoline vs.
nobp)
* Syslog messages for specve v2 are added
* Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES and define the attribute
functions for spectre v1 and v2

- Add helper macros for assembler alternatives and use them to shorten
the code in entry.S.

- Add support for persistent configuration data via the SCLP Store Data
interface. The H/W interface requires a page table that uses 4K pages
only, the code to setup such an address space is added as well.

- Enable virtio GPU emulation in QEMU. To do this the depends
statements for a few common Kconfig options are modified.

- Add support for format-3 channel path descriptors and add a binary
sysfs interface to export the associated utility strings.

- Add a sysfs attribute to control the IFCC handling in case of
constant channel errors.

- The vfio-ccw changes from Cornelia.

- Bug fixes and cleanups.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (40 commits)
s390/kvm: improve stack frame constants in entry.S
s390/lpp: use assembler alternatives for the LPP instruction
s390/entry.S: use assembler alternatives
s390: add assembler macros for CPU alternatives
s390: add sysfs attributes for spectre
s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog
s390: add automatic detection of the spectre defense
s390: move nobp parameter functions to nospec-branch.c
s390/cio: add util_string sysfs attribute
s390/chsc: query utility strings via fmt3 channel path descriptor
s390/cio: rename struct channel_path_desc
s390/cio: fix unbind of io_subchannel_driver
s390/qdio: split up CCQ handling for EQBS / SQBS
s390/qdio: don't retry EQBS after CCQ 96
s390/qdio: restrict buffer merging to eligible devices
s390/qdio: don't merge ERROR output buffers
s390/qdio: simplify math in get_*_buffer_frontier()
s390/decompressor: trim uncompressed image head during the build
s390/crypto: Fix kernel crash on aes_s390 module remove.
s390/defkeymap: fix global init to zero
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Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
"This removes the entire architecture code

Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
"This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv,
m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device
drivers.

I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to
ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely
unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the
respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream,
but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users.

In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely
different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in
charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software
ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf
CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It
seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not
used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In
contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively
maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees.

[ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next
generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU
microarchitecture and a software ecosystem" - Linus ]

The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at
https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not
marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I
made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile,
mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old
kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel
releases.

After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline
gcc support:

- unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the
maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least
in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc.

- openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing
their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first
place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some
degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1.
Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation
will be similar

[ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc
since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum - Linus ]"

This really says it all:

2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-)

* tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits)
MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account
staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver
tty: hvc: remove tile driver
tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers
serial: remove tile uart driver
serial: remove m32r_sio driver
serial: remove blackfin drivers
serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers
usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support
usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue
usb: musb: remove blackfin port
usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue
pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver
i2c: remove bfin-twi driver
spi: remove blackfin related host drivers
watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver
can: remove bfin_can driver
mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver
input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver
input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver
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