linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] ARM: Add support for the display controllers in VT8500 and WM8505

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Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:03:31 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel@...glegroups.com
Cc:	Alexey Charkov <alchark@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] ARM: Add support for the display controllers in VT8500 and WM8505

On Tuesday 09 November 2010, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> Quite frankly, I would say that all SoC framebuffer drivers are quite
> similar ;-) Register offsets, timing formats, accepted pixel formats,
> buffer alignment requirements are all different, so I do not really
> believe that there'd be much benefit from introducing another
> abstraction level. This is open to debate, of course.

Ok, I took a more detailed look at the code now. You're absolutely
right here.

	Arnd
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