linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/pl111: Initial drm/kms driver for pl111

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:31:07 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        "open list:DRM PANEL DRIVERS" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        tom.cooksey@....com,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/pl111: Initial drm/kms driver for pl111

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:54:53PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hm, I certainly want it... but it would be unreasonable of me to expect
> Eric to cold-code a big upfront design for systems he can't even test
> this on.
> 
> What I would request would rather be: please do not put in any
> immediate roadblocks and keep it in the back of your head that I will
> maybe come in and add support for the PL110 systems once this
> works. (Of course that would be with the aim to deprecate and
> delete the old fbdev driver in favor of this one.)

I'm only suggesting that it doesn't match the PL110 hardware as long as
it doesn't support the PL110...

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