From: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
deller@gmx.de, arnd@arndb.de, soci@c64.rulez.org,
gonzalo.silvalde@gmail.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org, wei.liu@kernel.org,
mhklinux@outlook.com, ssengar@linux.microsoft.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] fbdev: hyperv_fb: Remove hyperv_fb driver
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:53:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb823314-f7e4-45ee-bd10-22fcae300a68@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a958fe8-fbba-4bd6-a79d-fd310f08f8d7@suse.de>
Hi Thomas,
On 10-09-2025 15:06, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 09.09.25 um 18:58 schrieb Prasanna Kumar T S M:
>> The Hyper-V DRM driver is available since kernel version 5.14 and
>> provides full KMS support along with fbdev emulation via the DRM fbdev
>> helpers. This makes the hyperv_fb driver redundant, remove it.
>
> I'm all for removing obsolete drivers. But hyperv_drm likely first needs
> to merge the patch at https://lore.kernel.org/dri-
> devel/20250904145806.430568-5-tzimmermann@suse.de/ It's been tested and
> works well. If maintainers from Microsoft have a look at the patch
> first, we could possibly land it fairly soon.
>
I will test those patches on Hyper-V and share the result.
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-11 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2025-09-09 16:58 ` [RFC 1/3] fbdev: hyperv_fb: Remove hyperv_fb driver Prasanna Kumar T S M
2025-09-10 9:36 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-09-10 15:25 ` Michael Kelley
2025-09-10 15:48 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-09-11 16:28 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
2025-09-12 3:24 ` Michael Kelley
2025-09-12 7:01 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-09-16 4:37 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
2025-09-11 16:23 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M [this message]
2025-09-09 16:58 ` [RFC 2/3] drm/hyperv: Remove reference to " Prasanna Kumar T S M
2025-09-09 16:59 ` [RFC 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus_drv: Remove reference to hyperv_fb Prasanna Kumar T S M
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