[OE-core] [PATCH 11/15] linux-yocto: Enable drm by default

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> +SRC_URI += "file://drm.cfg"
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > If anything gets added to the default configurations, they need to go
>>> > into
>>> > the kernel-cache
>>> > and then be included by the relevant kernel types there.
>>> >
>>> > If you want, I can take care of switching things to that format.
>>> >
>>>
>>> yes please.
>>
>>
>> Will do. I'll make it available to all active kernel versions + future
>> ones.
>
>
> As it turns out, we already have a similar fragment for vmware guests:
>
> cfg/vmware-guest.cfg
>
> --------------------
>
> CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON=m
>
> CONFIG_VMWARE_PVSCSI=y
>
> CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI=m
>
> CONFIG_VSOCKETS=m
>
> CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS=m
>
> CONFIG_VMXNET3=y
>
> CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX=m
>
> CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX_FBCON=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_SPI=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_FC=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_SAS=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE=128
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_CTL=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_LAN=y
>
> CONFIG_FUSION_LOGGING=y
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS=y
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS_MAX_SGE=128
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS_LOGGING=y
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT3SAS=y
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT3SAS_MAX_SGE=128
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_MPT3SAS_LOGGING=y
>
> -------------
>
> To stay consistent with that naming, I'll call this virtual-box-guest.cfg,
> and it can be enabled
> via KERNEL_FEATURES when needed.
>
> I'm hesitant to globally enable it, since we don't need those modules on all
> linux-yocto
> kernels, just ones that are going to run on virtual box.
>
> I could enable them for qemux86*, since those already have virtio configs
> enabled by
> default and these have a similar goal.
>
> Thoughts ? I'd like to make sure that sounds reasonable, before spending the
> time to
> make the changes and test.
>

I would suggest to enable them by default since these are modules they
dont impact the size of kernel itself. Then we can use recommends to
choose them in machine configs.

> Bruce
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee
>> at its end"
>
>
>
>
> --
> "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at
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