Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On 4/26/2013 11:16 AM, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>> Hi Prabhakar,
>>
>> Thank you for the patch.
>>
>> On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote:
>>> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas
>>> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists
>>> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and
>>> 2 video planes.
>>> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/
>>> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf
>>>
>>> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is
>>> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the
>>> fbdev interface.
>>>
>>> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each
>>> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3.
>>
>> The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-)
>>
> I did go through the KMS model (thanks for pointing to your work and the video)
> and it looks like this would require a fair amount of development, at this point
> of time I would go with the current implementation and revisit on KMS model
> at later point of time.

But I doubt you will be able to sneak a new fbdev driver through. Last
time I heard, Andrew is only taking in fixes not new features.

Thanks,
Sekhar