linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUyHEExOCtH-hKh0HmZzadmfZaR=vAVYJkTvphfzs3Xiw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:50:58 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ckframe.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:33 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> But reading code&docs is too hard I guess, safer to assume it's just
> broken and not supported.

I confirm there's lots of documentation (and even more code ;-),
which is always great!
But both are intimidating to me, and most of the documentation covers
features I'm not interested in, as they're only applicable to fancy
modern truecolor 3D-capable multi-buffer and multi-head hardware, while
what I am looking for is usually not documented.  E.g. I had a hard
time to discover how color look-up tables work (gamma_{store,size}!),
as this is not covered in https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/index.html,
and none of the tinydrm drivers support CLUT modes.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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