From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Noralf_Tr=c3=b8nnes?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:30:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1470319400-14625-1-git-send-email-noralf@tronnes.org> <20160804143635.GJ6232@phenom.ffwll.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160804143635.GJ6232@phenom.ffwll.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Vetter Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Herrmann List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Den 04.08.2016 16:36, skrev Daniel Vetter: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 04:03:18PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote: >> This patchset adds the simpledrm driver by David Herrmann based on a >> patchset[1] from 2014. That patchset also included patches for kicking >> out simpledrm by real drivers. I have stayed away from that since it >> involves another subsystem and I would probably be unable to answer any >> questions about the implementation. > Need David's input on this, but I think the force-removal of simpledrm > when other drivers take over is required. Otherwise hilarity can ensue. > If we leave this out for the inital merge then I think we need a really > big warning in Kconfig that if people aren't careful it could result in a > kaboom. I understand. I anticipated this, but I was hoping that if I moved this part forward, which I was capable of doing, maybe someone else could do the rest :-) Anyways, if no one chimes in to do this, lets add a warning. > If you can, booting this on a vesa/uefi platform would be interesting too, > just to make sure. I'm a bit limited here I'm afraid. I only have a Raspberry Pi to test with. My other Linux installations are running on a VMware ESXi server. Noralf.