Hi Jan,

On 07/12/2022 11:34, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07.12.2022 11:29, Michal Orzel wrote:
>> A build failure [1] is observed if CONFIG_VGA (and thus CONFIG_VIDEO) is
>> not set. This is because XENPF_get_dom0_console cmd of platform hypercall
>> makes a call to fill_console_start_info, which is defined in video/vga.c
>> and built only if CONFIG_VGA is set.
> 
> Which means to use ...
> 
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/platform_hypercall.c
>> @@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ ret_t do_platform_op(
>>      }
>>      break;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO
> 
> ... CONFIG_VGA here, unless fill_console_start_info() was moved to a file
> that's built dependent upon CONFIG_VIDEO.
The one and only reason of using CONFIG_VIDEO and not CONFIG_VGA is that all the
calls in existing codebase to fill_console_start_info are protected by 
CONFIG_VIDEO
and not CONFIG_VGA. That is why I choose to stick to the current behavior.

> 
> Jan

~Michal

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