linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to drm_fbdev_generic

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Date:   Mon, 2 May 2022 21:28:45 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to
 drm_fbdev_generic_setup()

On 5/2/22 20:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:15:16PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 5/2/22 18:55, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> drop the depth option to drm_fbdev_generic_setup() ? There's a FIXME
>>>> comment in drm_fbdev_generic_setup() that could be related.
>>>
>>> A FIXME makes sense, I'll add that to when posting a v3.
>>
>> There's actually a FIXME already in drm_fbdev_generic_setup(), so it's
>> a documented issue [0]:
> 
> That's what I meant by "there's a FIXME" :-) It doesn't have to be
> addressed by this series, but it would be good to fix it.
>

doh, I misread your original email. Yes, it's the same issue as you
said and something that I plan to look at some point as a follow-up.
 
I hope that we could just replace fbcon with a kms/systemd-consoled/foo
user-space implementation before fixing all the stuff in the DRM fbdev
emulation layer :)

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat