From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] DRM: add i.MX IPUv3 base driver
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:31:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120824183119.GD18957@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKGA1bkjJXK8bUxLxRYz_4Rj9YW0mJxBMyg7ir+Hfo+s6Lza0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:00:13PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Nobody wants to write
> the same driver 5 times, and while the Silicon Image controllers are
> wonderfully generic with a common API ("TPI") and there could be a
> generic MFD solution with shim drivers on top for DRM, nobody else's
> are quite as nice.
I got here and immediately thought "oh god not more layers to DRM".
DRM does _not_ need any more bloody layers on top of the existing
layers. It needs a library of helper functions to provide common
functionality so that folk don't have to write the same bloody stuff
time and time again.
A library of helpers, not a shim layer to convert it to something else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-24 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-08-24 14:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] DRM: add i.MX IPUv3 base driver Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-08-24 15:58 ` Dirk Behme
2012-08-27 8:30 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-08-24 17:38 ` Robert Schwebel
2012-08-24 18:00 ` Matt Sealey
2012-08-24 18:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2012-06-14 13:43 [PATCH, RFC] i.MX DRM support Sascha Hauer
2012-06-14 13:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] DRM: add i.MX IPUv3 base driver Sascha Hauer
2012-06-22 6:04 ` Shawn Guo
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