[PATCH] arch/sh: Drop CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID from defconfig files
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Wed Apr 1 20:07:56 AEDT 2026
Hi Geert
Am 01.04.26 um 10:55 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> CC arm/mips/ppc, as you sent similar patches for these arches.
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 at 10:40, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y depends on X86 or EFI_GENERIC_STUB. Neither is
>> true here, so drop the lines from the defconfig files.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> Upon first look, your changes match the (current) dependencies
> of FIRMWARE_EDID. The dependency on X86 was added in commit
> 7e35fc7ab433683f ("video: Make CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID generally
> available") in v6.17-rc1.
> However, CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID also protects fb_firmware_edid(),
> which seems to extract the EDID from the PCI ROM, and is thus not
The PCI code in the function tests whether the BIOS ROM has been
shadowed into system memory. That's a common way of testing if the PCI
device is the primary graphics card. The provided EDID is only for the
primary device.
The test shouldn't actually be there any more. We now have
video_is_primary_device() for this.
> x86-specific? That function is only ever called by three fbdev drivers
> (i810, nv, savagefb), though.
I know. But IDK why it hasn't been more prominently featured in fbdev.
Nowadays, we use the firmware EDID with DRM's generic drivers on any
hardware.
>
> I assume none of these work on SuperH, so
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
Thanks
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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