Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763014Ab3ECJ4U (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 05:56:20 -0400 Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:56545 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754431Ab3ECJ4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 05:56:15 -0400 Message-ID: <51838994.7070805@ti.com> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 15:25:32 +0530 From: Sekhar Nori User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prabhakar Lad CC: Laurent Pinchart , DLOS , LMML , LFBDEV , LAK , LKML , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Florian Tobias Schandinat Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform References: <1366804808-22720-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 43 On 4/26/2013 11:16 AM, Prabhakar Lad wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart > wrote: >> Hi Prabhakar, >> >> Thank you for the patch. >> >> On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote: >>> From: Lad, Prabhakar >>> >>> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas >>> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists >>> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and >>> 2 video planes. >>> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/ >>> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf >>> >>> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is >>> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the >>> fbdev interface. >>> >>> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each >>> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3. >> >> The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-) >> > I did go through the KMS model (thanks for pointing to your work and the video) > and it looks like this would require a fair amount of development, at this point > of time I would go with the current implementation and revisit on KMS model > at later point of time. But I doubt you will be able to sneak a new fbdev driver through. Last time I heard, Andrew is only taking in fixes not new features. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/