Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 13:26 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
> > 2. Try to fix `radeonfb` so that it is able to kick offb out of the
> > way. Eg: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-Augu
> > st/002907.html
> > 
> > From my understanding it would make sense to go for (2), since it
> > would allow for proper support for CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m on PowerMac.
> > In
> > this case, would such patch be accepted ?
> 
> Sounds like the right fix to me. Ben's patch above was merged, so
> it's supposed
> to kick out offb AFAICS, the fact that it can't seems like a

Make sure you have CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y

Ben.

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