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

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Message-ID: <CAKMK7uGv11kk08myiSmt0-R3zMZrWcYo3-o9Pnj0JAFDxVuG3g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:45:55 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
>>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.
>>>
>>> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be
>>> applied. Only for review.
>>
>> +1 from my side. Now that we have the simple pipe helpers in drm-kms, and
>> a few drivers starting to use them, there's really no reasons left anymore
>> to have fbdev drivers.
>
> I haven't been following this that closely, so can you please point me to a
> sample DRM driver using this simple pipe helper?

Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of
them floating around in various places ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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