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

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUE9npco8hKcA160+rSFcCXpf7cXh+CX4Q207aA5FrT2g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Dec 2016 13:33:32 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        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

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> So it is possible, only reason vram dumb buffers look worse is that there's
>> only 3 and no one cares about them, vs about 20 and a very active community
>> of contributors (also for core drm improvements) for the other case.
>
> Well, we could move offb to drm while at it I suppose that would be another
> one (offb is the "dumb driver based on pre-programmed output by firmware).

That would indeed be a great example.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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