linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb

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Date:	Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:21:59 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
<macro@...ux-mips.org> wrote:
>  Thanks, but the changes required are actually much more than that -- the
> driver has never been converted to the modern TURBOchannel API.  I have
> now dug out an old patch I was working on back in 2006 to convert this
> driver as well as drivers/video/maxinefb.c.  I'll try to complete the two
> drivers as soon as possible (unfortunately I can't test the latter at all;
> it's for an onboard graphics adapter of another DECstation model),
> although I now remember the main reason I didn't complete them back then
> was they used an old internal API that was removed and no suitable
> replacement provided.  I need to investigate again what that actually was
> though (hw cursor probably).

pmag-aa-fb.c still has struct display_switch (for the old drawing API) and the
old fb_ops (with get_var()/get_fix()), instead of the new fb_ops (rectangular
drawing API and var/fix as member data).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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