linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:44:30 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
        Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:22:09 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > Wut. We have like 20+ small atomic drivers nowdays.
>>
>> That's fast! Only two weeks ago you said:
>>
>> | Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of
>> | them floating around in various places ...
>
> You're not talking about the same thing I believe.
>
> When Daniel says "small atomic drivers", he talks about the relatively
> small DRM drivers for SoC display controllers, such as the ones you can
> find in ARM SoCs.
>
> When you say "small driver", you're thinking about drivers for I2C or
> SPI connected displays.

No, I wasn't thinking about I2C or SPI connected displays, but about simple
dumb memory-mapped frame buffers, which is what fbdev was initially
developed for.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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