Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:42:29 +0300 | From | Aaro Koskinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: xgifb: delete the driver |
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Hi,
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@rtp-net.org> > > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> > > Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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?
A.
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