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From:   Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: remove dead igafb driver
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:45:31 +0200
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On Wednesday 18 October 2017, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:14:27 +0200
>
> > Hi Bartlomiej!
> >
> > On 10/18/2017 02:56 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >> igafb driver hasn't compiled since at least kernel v2.6.34 as
> >> commit 6016a363f6b5 ("of: unify phandle name in struct device_node")
> >> missed updating igafb.c to use dp->phandle instead of dp->node.
> >
> > Would it take a lot of work to port the driver to the new interface?
> >
> > I'm not sure which SPARC machines use this particular framebuffer, but
> > my plans are to fix up all these old framebuffer drivers. I have
> > already
> > received several Amiga (Zorro) graphics cards for testing the updated
> > drivers on Amiga.
> >
> > It could be that I actually have this particular SPARC framebuffer in
> > my hardware collection.
>
> Unless you have a 32-bit sparc laptop, you don't have a machine that
> will use this driver.

There are also some x86 PCI cards using this chip.

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Ondrej Zary

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