linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/pl111: Initial drm/kms driver for pl111

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:08:33 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        "open list:DRM PANEL DRIVERS" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Tom Cooksey <tom.cooksey@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/pl111: Initial drm/kms driver for pl111

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:54:53PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> Hm, I certainly want it... but it would be unreasonable of me to expect
>> Eric to cold-code a big upfront design for systems he can't even test
>> this on.
>>
>> What I would request would rather be: please do not put in any
>> immediate roadblocks and keep it in the back of your head that I will
>> maybe come in and add support for the PL110 systems once this
>> works. (Of course that would be with the aim to deprecate and
>> delete the old fbdev driver in favor of this one.)
>
> I'm only suggesting that it doesn't match the PL110 hardware as long as
> it doesn't support the PL110...

Of course. Let's proceed like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij