Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934220AbcKWJA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:00:57 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f195.google.com ([209.85.223.195]:35234 "EHLO mail-io0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755330AbcKWJA2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:00:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [2a02:168:56b5:0:ac27:b86c:7764:9429] In-Reply-To: References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <20161123081932.byoasvcl322hrlin@phenom.ffwll.local> From: Daniel Vetter Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:45:55 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nl7QzKOOotpNouQ7INR0GC2gFxo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Arnaud Patard , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Sudip Mukherjee , =?UTF-8?Q?Noralf_Tr=C3=B8nnes?= , Teddy Wang , Greg Kroah-Hartman , DRI Development , Thomas Petazzoni , Linux Fbdev development list , Tomi Valkeinen 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: 1045 Lines: 26 On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers >>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging. >>> >>> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be >>> applied. Only for review. >> >> +1 from my side. Now that we have the simple pipe helpers in drm-kms, and >> a few drivers starting to use them, there's really no reasons left anymore >> to have fbdev drivers. > > I haven't been following this that closely, so can you please point me to a > sample DRM driver using this simple pipe helper? Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of them floating around in various places ... -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch