From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] drm: Allow simpledrm to setup its emulated FB as firmware provided
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 14:45:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47d3a7f6-24f9-7d54-48bf-09ab9e40e2de@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YnO+8hZ0ozPaZUEj@phenom.ffwll.local>
Hello Daniel,
On 5/5/22 14:11, Daniel Vetter wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> And while I agree with you that these midlayer flags are horrible, that is
>> what any other fbdev that makes use of a firmware-provided framebuffer set,
>> so simpledrm emulated fbdev shouldn't be the exception IMO.
>
> So we discussed this a pile more on irc, and at least my take is that
> people who run simpledrm but want to combine that with fbdev drivers and
> expect it to all work nicely we can probably ignore. At least until all
> this sysfb stuff is nicely unified, and at that point we shouldn't need
> special flags anymore.
I'm OK with this take and happy to just drop this patch-set then. My worry
was just that someone could complain that we broke their uncommon setup [0].
[0]: https://xkcd.com/1172/.
--
Best regards,
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-03 7:15 [PATCH v3 0/3] drm: Allow simpledrm to setup its emulated FB as firmware provided Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] drm: Remove superfluous arg when calling to drm_fbdev_generic_setup() Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] drm/fb-helper: Rename preferred_bpp drm_fbdev_generic_setup() parameter Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 17:02 ` Jernej Škrabec
2022-05-03 17:02 ` Jernej Škrabec
2022-05-03 17:02 ` Jernej Škrabec
2022-05-03 17:02 ` Jernej Škrabec
2022-05-03 17:02 ` Jernej Škrabec
2022-05-03 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] drm: Allow simpledrm to setup its emulated FB as firmware provided Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-03 7:15 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-04 10:58 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-05-04 10:58 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-05-04 11:32 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-05-05 12:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-05-05 12:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-05-05 12:45 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2022-05-05 12:58 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-05-05 12:58 ` Daniel Vetter
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