From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:14:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC v2] linux: add fbtft kernel extension In-Reply-To: <20141231092041.2b7cfa41@free-electrons.com> References: <1419969494-9615-1-git-send-email-ps.report@gmx.net> <20141230223603.GC3928@free.fr> <20141230232807.GD3928@free.fr> <20141231092041.2b7cfa41@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20141231101445.40e73507@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:20:41 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > No the proper solution would be for those fbtft people to submit their > drivers to the upstream kernel. But of course, since those drivers are > developed by RasberryPi folks, they cannot play with the normal > open-source rules of contributing things upstream: they *have* to do > some utter crap and do everything in their own fork. So, I've just submitted a proposal to include those drivers to the staging tree of the Linux kernel: http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2014-December/063195.html Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com