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From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (gregkh at linuxfoundation.org)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:40:45 -0800
Subject: GSoC: RFC: fbdev fbtft auxdisplay or IIO
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On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 06:02:09PM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> Hi GregKH,
> 
> In looking around what I could do in the mid-future, possibly as a GSoC
> project (?), I have 2 questions:
> 
> Is there active ongoing work on getting rid of drivers/auxdisplay? There
> are 2 drivers left in there... If not, would that be desired?

I really do not know, do you have the hardware for those devices?

> What is the status of fbtft? Moving drivers *in* to staging feels wrong,
> but fbtft isn't yet present in the main tree. I would guess that fbtft
> is where these auxdisplay drivers could go. Would you put them into
> another area? fbdev?

There's a thread in the archives somewhere that talks about moving fbtft
into being a "real" drm driver.  I suggest you look into that if you are
curious.

> Different topic: IIO: I have ideas for mma8452 driver additions, and
> along this way, additions to the iio sysfs ABI. Would it make sense to
> lay this out and make a project out of it?

That might be good, care to go into more details about this?

thanks,

greg k-h