Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:11:18PM -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote:
> Of course real support for poulsbo is really important and desirable
> since netbooks make such a huge percentage of computer sales these
> days. I'm guessing, however, that the number of
> embedded/mobile/appliance devices that use or will use the SGX5xx is
> much larger than even the plethora of netbooks being pumped out. If
> more hardware support can be gained for a little extra burden why not
> go for it? I would argue that a unified driver stack would actually
> have less maintenance cost since common bugs could be killed. Even
> ignoring all the arm devices that will use that graphics core, what
> about intel's own use of the SGX 535 elsewhere? Does this "poulsbo"
> driver support the intel CE3100 processors?
> 
> 
> I think i'm really apprehensive about device specific one-offs. Of
> course a mainline driver upstream is an important step to prevent that
> but without a roadmap it only seems marginally better.

Staging is all aobut "device specific one-offs".  the code is then in a
common area where everyone can work to fix it up properly.

I don't want to burry this work again in random git trees that no one
has any clue how to put together, like has already been done in the
past.

thanks,

greg k-h