Re: [PATCH] staging: xgifb: delete the driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:42 AM Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:20:28PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:08:28AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > There has not been any real work done on cleaning this driver up and
> > > getting it out of the staging tree in years.  Also, no new fb drivers
> > > are being added to the tree, so it should be converted into a drm driver
> > > as well.
> > >
> > > Due to the lack of interest in this codebase, just drop it.
> > >
> > > Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Because of this I just lost fb/display on two of my computers...
>
> So I guess to reintroduce the support for this HW I need to write a new
> DRM driver and no staging work anymore. Which of the current DRM drivers
> would be best to be used as a template/example for a new driver?

For a simple driver pick any of the recently merged ones using the
drm_simple_display_pipe helpers, those will get rid of all the
boilerplate for you. If you have vram, you might need the in-flight
vram helpers that currently are worked on by Thomas Zimmermann (they
refactor simple vram handling from about 5 drivers into a new helper,
with the goal to make porting fbdev drivers even easier).
-Daniel




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