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Date:   Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:59:31 +0300
From:   Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Hi,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:06:11AM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 27/04/18 21:12, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> >> You should be targeting omapdrm driver instead, fbdev subsystem is closed
> >> for the new hardware support.
> > 
> > AFAIK, based on N950 display support discussion, it's impossible to get
> > anything new into omapdrm for a long time. And based on Tomi's comments,
> > restoring RFBI support with omapfb should be a minor thing.
> 
> I was perhaps a bit vague, but I didn't say it should be a minor thing.
> I meant that there should be no architectural obstacles in omapfb, and I
> think all the generic plumbing to enable N800 display is there in omapfb.
> 
> That said, it still needs a real amount of work with the rfbi driver,
> the encoder driver and the panel driver on N800 (the encoder and the
> panel driver are not in mainline anymore).

Let's see first if I get anything working. After that we can evaluate
the impact properly once we see the actual patches needed.

A.