Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758655Ab3E1Cbp (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 22:31:45 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:38102 "EHLO mail-ie0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758557Ab3E1Cbn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 22:31:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1369626821-28494-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com> From: Alexandre Courbot Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 11:31:22 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] video: simplefb: add mode parsing function To: David Herrmann Cc: Alexandre Courbot , Andrew Morton , Stephen Warren , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , Rob Clark , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 25 Hi David, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:22 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > If we apply this patch it will get very hard to support this with a > KMS driver. So any reason why we cannot use the DRM FOURCC constants > instead? I don't see any. Maybe Stephen can confirm. > The dvbe proposal is available here: (also see the two following patches) > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.2/00274.html > > it provides a simple DRM driver that uses VESA / VBE. I am currently > trying to rework it to "SimpleDRM" which can support arbitrary > firmware framebuffers. Ok. I am personally fine with using FOURCC codes for describing video modes. Maybe we can just drop this patch if it gets in your way. Alex. -- 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/