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

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Date:   Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:57:29 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        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

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> As I mentioned earlier, probably 1 or 2 years ago, Dave made the
> argument that shadowing through memory was necessary and precluded 2D
> accel, though I don't fully remember the root of the argument. If that
> is indeed not the case, then my main objection is lifted.

Things seem to change quickly as Daniel pointed out.

So ast and cirrus seem to still use a manual dirty tracking and
shadowing (though I'm not sure why), but the infrastructure for
that has moved from the drivers to the helpers.

bochs (qemu) doesn't seem to anymore from what I can see as it
doesn't have a ->dirty callback.

Cheers,
Ben.