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package/fbtft: remove package

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The fbtft linux extension was only needed for very old kernels (<4.0)
that are no longer available in Buildroot.

Let's therefore remove it.

Signed-off-by: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
This commit is contained in:
Titouan Christophe
2025-08-29 16:42:44 +02:00
committed by Julien Olivain
parent 56e4b43301
commit 0ad6f18547
9 changed files with 8 additions and 77 deletions
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Config.in.legacy
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@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
comment "Legacy options removed in 2025.11"
config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_FBTFT
bool "FB TFT drivers are deprecated"
select BR2_LEGACY
help
FB TFT drivers were only needed for linux kernels until v3.19,
since v4.0 the drivers are included in the staging area.
config BR2_PACKAGE_DMENU_WAYLAND
bool "dmenu-wayland has been removed"
select BR2_LEGACY

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docs/manual/adding-packages-linux-kernel-spec-infra.adoc
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@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ tree. The Buildroot's Linux kernel extensions infrastructure provides
a simple solution to automatically do this, just after the kernel
sources are extracted and before the kernel patches are
applied. Examples of extensions packaged using this mechanism are the
real-time extensions Xenomai and RTAI, as well as the set of
out-of-tree LCD screens drivers +fbtft+.
real-time extensions Xenomai and RTAI.
Let's look at an example on how to add a new Linux extension +foo+.

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linux/Config.ext.in
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@@ -55,27 +55,6 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_RTAI
help
RTAI Kernel part.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# fbtft
config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_FBTFT
bool "FB TFT drivers"
select BR2_PACKAGE_FBTFT
help
Linux Framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCD display modules,
e.g. Adafruit PiTFT displays for Raspberry Pi (this extra
package is only needed for linux kernels until v3.19, since
v4.0 the drivers are included in the staging area).
To enable fbtft, e.g. for Adafruit 2.8 PiTFT, enable the
following kernel configurations:
- CONFIG_SPI
- CONFIG_GPIOLIB
- CONFIG_FB
- CONFIG_FB_TFT
- CONFIG_FB_TFT_ILI9341
https://github.com/notro/fbtft
# kernel extensions from br2-external trees, if any
source "$BR2_BASE_DIR/.br2-external.in.linux"

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linux/linux-ext-fbtft.mk
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@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
################################################################################
#
# Patch the linux kernel with fbtft extension
#
################################################################################
LINUX_EXTENSIONS += fbtft
# for linux >= 3.15 install to drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft
# for linux < 3.15 install to drivers/video/fbtft
define FBTFT_PREPARE_KERNEL
if [ -e $(LINUX_DIR)/drivers/video/fbdev ]; then \
dest=drivers/video/fbdev ; \
else \
dest=drivers/video ; \
fi ; \
mkdir -p $(LINUX_DIR)/$${dest}/fbtft; \
cp -dpfr $(FBTFT_DIR)/* $(LINUX_DIR)/$${dest}/fbtft/ ; \
echo "source \"$${dest}/fbtft/Kconfig\"" \
>> $(LINUX_DIR)/$${dest}/Kconfig ; \
echo 'obj-y += fbtft/' >> $(LINUX_DIR)/$${dest}/Makefile
endef

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package/Config.in
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@@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ endmenu
source "package/eudev/Config.in"
source "package/evemu/Config.in"
source "package/evtest/Config.in"
source "package/fbtft/Config.in"
source "package/flashrom/Config.in"
source "package/fmtools/Config.in"
source "package/freeipmi/Config.in"

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package/fbtft/Config.in
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@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
# Prompt-less option, because this package is not doing anything
# except downloading the FB TFT sources. The real work is done by a
# Linux extension.
config BR2_PACKAGE_FBTFT
bool
depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
help
Linux Framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCD display modules,
e.g. Adafruit PiTFT displays for Raspberry Pi.
This is only the download helper for the kernel patch.
https://github.com/notro/fbtft

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package/fbtft/fbtft.hash
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
# locally computed
sha256 0e81de89fdd7ab810716fc0549e767527f342e829309dee5c2cca1e9d1728770 fbtft-274035404701245e7491c0c6471c5b72ade4d491.tar.gz
sha256 a9ca80d65a5ef10fe614a6c1e8c8d4d3b96637e8855a96c7cf0fa438526097a7 fbtft-core.c

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package/fbtft/fbtft.mk
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
################################################################################
#
# fbtft
#
################################################################################
FBTFT_VERSION = 274035404701245e7491c0c6471c5b72ade4d491
FBTFT_SITE = $(call github,notro,fbtft,$(FBTFT_VERSION))
FBTFT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
FBTFT_LICENSE_FILES = fbtft-core.c
$(eval $(generic-package))

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utils/checksymbolslib/test_makefile.py
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@@ -250,9 +250,6 @@ check_filename = [
('fs/cramfs/cramfs.mk',
'fs/cramfs/cramfs.mk',
True),
('linux/linux-ext-fbtft.mk',
'linux/linux-ext-fbtft.mk',
True),
('package/ace/ace.mk',
'package/ace/ace.mk',
True),