From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Tom Li <tomli@tomli.me>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] fbdev: sm712fb: implement 2D acceleration w/ cleanups.
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:02:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190205090246.GB3271@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204220650.GA24673@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 06:06:50AM +0800, Tom Li wrote:
> > Since you care about this driver, considered converting it to a drm
> > display driver? You can still have all the acceleration and stuff, the
> > fbdev compat mode in drm is rather flexible.
> > -Daniel
>
> Yes, I know fbdev is now in maintenance-only mode, reimplementing it
> on top of DRM is on my roadmap, including rewriting a saner version
> of the modesetting code. The current version is beyond repair. I'll
> start working on it once I managed to purchase the hardware for testing.
>
> But currently my objectively is to have something usable during the
> transitional period. The major user of the chipset was Yeeloong 8089D
> laptop - a choice for many non-x86 and MIPS hobbyists for experimentation.
> Getting the current version of the patch merged would solve the immediate
> usability issues, and then trying to get some platform drivers merged.
> And after completing the preliminary upstreaming process, since then,
> can start working on a DRM version of the driver, and possibly eventually
> remove the fbdev version of sm712fb entirely.
>
> The 2D acceleration implementation is strictly no more than 200 lines,
> the vast majority of the code insertions are comments and documentation
> changes ranting about the known issues of the driver/hardware, nothing
> non-trivial is added and I think the changeset is manageable and would
> not be a burden for the fbdev maintainers, and I can grarantee that I will
> not add any other new features to this driver.
Awesome, and I think as a gradual plan this makes tons of sense.
Cheers, Daniel
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-02 6:16 [PATCH 0/8] fbdev: sm712fb: implement 2D acceleration w/ cleanups Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 1/8] fbdev: sm712fb: update copyright headers Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 2/8] fbdev: sm712fb: use type "u8" for 8-bit I/O Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 3/8] fbdev: sm712fb: add 2D-related I/O headers and functions Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 4/8] fbdev: sm712fb: support 2D acceleration on SM712 w/ Little-Endian CPU Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 5/8] fbdev: sm712fb: add 32-bit color modes, drops some other modes Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 6/8] Documentation: fb: sm712fb: add information mainly about 2D Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 7/8] fbdev: sm712fb: Kconfig: add information about docs Yifeng Li
2019-02-02 6:16 ` [PATCH 8/8] MAINTAINERS: sm712fb: list myself as one maintainer Yifeng Li
2019-02-04 9:26 ` [PATCH 0/8] fbdev: sm712fb: implement 2D acceleration w/ cleanups Daniel Vetter
2019-02-04 22:06 ` Tom Li
2019-02-05 9:02 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
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