From: Prasanna Kumar T S M Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 21:10:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34b4620349fe4776babf9c735e1c68e620784763;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver The Hyper-V DRM driver is available since kernel version 5.14 and it provides full KMS support and fbdev emulation via the DRM fbdev helpers. Deprecate this driver in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver. Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley Reviewed-by: Saurabh Sengar Signed-off-by: Wei Liu --- diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig index 72c63eaeb983..c3b9954df804 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig @@ -1773,13 +1773,16 @@ config FB_BROADSHEET a bridge adapter. config FB_HYPERV - tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V Synthetic Video support" + tristate "Microsoft Hyper-V Synthetic Video support (DEPRECATED)" depends on FB && HYPERV_VMBUS select DMA_CMA if HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA select FB_IOMEM_HELPERS_DEFERRED help This framebuffer driver supports Microsoft Hyper-V Synthetic Video. + This driver is deprecated, please use the Hyper-V DRM driver at + drivers/gpu/drm/hyperv (CONFIG_DRM_HYPERV) instead. + config FB_SIMPLE tristate "Simple framebuffer support" depends on FB diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c index 75338ffc703f..c99e2ea4b3de 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c @@ -1357,6 +1357,8 @@ static int __init hvfb_drv_init(void) { int ret; + pr_warn("Deprecated: use Hyper-V DRM driver instead\n"); + if (fb_modesetting_disabled("hyper_fb")) return -ENODEV;