Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933474AbcKWIV7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:21:59 -0500 Received: from lelnx193.ext.ti.com ([198.47.27.77]:63167 "EHLO lelnx193.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933035AbcKWIV6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:21:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers To: , , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Petazzoni , =?UTF-8?Q?Noralf_Tr=c3=b8nnes?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <20161123081932.byoasvcl322hrlin@phenom.ffwll.local> From: Tomi Valkeinen Message-ID: <508207ae-7667-c2ac-1e5c-cba28ed05a52@ti.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:21:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161123081932.byoasvcl322hrlin@phenom.ffwll.local> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0Xb3qFVjh9PAFCBxH3816XON7I7kVRoer" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2801 Lines: 72 --0Xb3qFVjh9PAFCBxH3816XON7I7kVRoer Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Anho68XRfRE8Rk7XSETgwO9LMAWApqOrO"; protected-headers="v1" From: Tomi Valkeinen To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Petazzoni , =?UTF-8?Q?Noralf_Tr=c3=b8nnes?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <508207ae-7667-c2ac-1e5c-cba28ed05a52@ti.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <20161123081932.byoasvcl322hrlin@phenom.ffwll.local> In-Reply-To: <20161123081932.byoasvcl322hrlin@phenom.ffwll.local> --Anho68XRfRE8Rk7XSETgwO9LMAWApqOrO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23/11/16 10:19, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display d= rivers >> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from s= taging. >> >> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't = be >> applied. Only for review. >=20 > +1 from my side. Now that we have the simple pipe helpers in drm-kms, a= nd > a few drivers starting to use them, there's really no reasons left anym= ore > to have fbdev drivers. Well, I think there's the MMU problem. If I recall right, someone said DRM doesn't compile/work without MMU. Tomi --Anho68XRfRE8Rk7XSETgwO9LMAWApqOrO-- --0Xb3qFVjh9PAFCBxH3816XON7I7kVRoer Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYNVGNAAoJEPo9qoy8lh71h2kQAKqUy7Soxf9TKp8BIKsuZSUv OI1i0PSPoFP+QscjiuTPjhE7gc33rA37HB8QHRWirY5vTtGtIZOi9L4CHWSPm3Zd UjH57h92W374SMIvx9/ORB70l1/7p6iBd4owPnil8xBKjY/ZzQSZcpgTJYnxyTKp SQLUvFoafXMzOkFrq+Ns9K91xBH2F+912l0HH7b/YaDI/xpVPGqu/MxENR/3axx8 7CWBGXXIs6YRmhJxEPHUiVz9+J9KJPfqCJ3lfW7Sq2jpRH63LKXbltRo6ZDptA8a WC0DnvgbaNgFdvmUrocKKEGf7m18FPXgctEVXF122j8RXmJnXAcVgnorDm1AfQP9 /GQeFd1MOercL+6WFyJwO8GojtrA8wuJHBE4+bF8oEcFXTSzB+6bxL3adV3WFmmU Re5Z0gkgiOh0qMPQdAUvGzr9rvmqlLCvHhco+GQiRsuhNJ4AIDtg80usrOlHoKAq UI40UYEhfBHAK+lTKneV7ViLlxM52jtn5eThHhC44AnBFwxKVpO3uLZ+IFbBmwkP 14Nlfc46Fq9FtQ7fZsWA4j2WeOMNwkTCaNtfhpDhV92lskjuxjhBcFWJB9SoS3ME fwae+kpsu80A1m6e1La5yGH6z5CTcVHwUVVCFUmyC23hgx00LijF7Uck3DNk1CA4 Z7y4zVc9IKKW+jiZQTkF =ZDln -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0Xb3qFVjh9PAFCBxH3816XON7I7kVRoer--