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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2023 14:53:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] gpu/drm: remove the shmobile drm driver
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
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Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:49 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 08:15:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > So given that the big series doesn't go in, can we get this removal
> > picked up through the drm tree?
>
> Geert has a board with an ARM-based SoC compatible with this driver, and
> he expressed interest in taking over maintainership. Geert, could you
> share your plans ? Should the shmobile_drm driver be dropped now, or
> will you revive it in a relatively near future ?

(Trying to) get it working on that board is on my list...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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