linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] OMAP: DSS2: Intro

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Message-Id: <33395592-242E-475A-9642-2AFD5B478B81@student.utwente.nl>
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:54:20 +0200
From:	Koen Kooi <k.kooi@...dent.utwente.nl>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...ia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org Mailing List" 
	<linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] OMAP: DSS2: Intro


Op 31 aug 2009, om 11:23 heeft Artem Bityutskiy het volgende geschreven:

> On 08/28/2009 03:25 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> This patch set implement new display subsystem driver (DSS2) and  
>> omapfb driver
>> for OMAP2/3. The patches have been reviewed on linux-omap and linux- 
>> fbdev-devel
>> mailing lists. The patches can also be found from
>> http://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux
>>
>> The patches include DSS documentation patch that includes more  
>> instructions for
>> module parameters, sysfs files etc.
>>
>> The patches enable DSS2 for OMAP3430 SDP board. DSS2 is used in  
>> various boards,
>> for example Nokia N900, Beagle Board and Overo.
>>
>> I don't currently have any OMAP2 board to test DSS2, but it has  
>> worked on OMAP2
>> and the possible fixes needed should be minimal.
>>
>> OMAP1 is not supported, and so the old DSS needs to be used on  
>> OMAP1 boards.
>>
>> DSS2 is partly based on the old omapfb driver by Imre Deak, and  
>> Imre has also
>> contributed to DSS2 quite a bit. Ville Syrjälä has been  
>> contributing to scaling
>> and tv-out work. Also some contributions have been made by Hardik  
>> Shah, Vaibhav
>> Hiremath, and perhaps some others that I have forgotten =).
>
> Tony, Andrew,
>
> how could we merge this code (unless there are requests to change  
> something, which
> does not seem to be the case.). It seems like there is no maintainer  
> who could
> merge this. Or there is? Would Tomi need to send a direct pull  
> request to Linus,
> or this could got via Tony?
>
> We are using DSS2 in Nokia for about a year already. N900 is using  
> this
> code, for example. Other (non-Nokia) projects are using DSS2 as well.
> The code was public for long time and was sent several times for  
> review.

With my beagleboard hat on: I agree with Artem, let's get this merged.  
I hope other TI folk can put their TI hat on and say something nice  
about dss2 as well :)

regards,

Koen

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