From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] vt8623fb: New framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 07:07:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178406457.22828.7.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070505224855.GA18807@skynet.be>
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 00:48 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:34:51PM +0300, Ville Syrj채l채 wrote:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:15:51PM +0300, Ville Syrj채l채 wrote:
> > > > > + vt8623fb - fbdev driver for graphics core in VIA VT8623 chipset
> > > > > + ===============================================================
> > > >
> > > > Doesn't viafb support this hardware?
> > >
> > > Yes, this hardware is supported by several out-of-tree drivers,
> > > some of them are named viafb.
> >
> > The "official" (ie. the one from via) was just posted here for inclusion.
>
> You mean that tiny one which talks about GUEUEs and such?
I hope you're being ironic with the 'tiny' :-), because the patch that
came from VIA was humongous.
>
> Who plans on cleaning that one up? Who is prepared to see VIA just
> plough on regardless after that, just like VIA did with the X driver?
>
Yep, just looking at that patch, it will be a difficult one to clean up.
Tony
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-05 14:49 [PATCH 06/20] vt8623fb: New framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623 Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-05 18:15 ` Ville Syrjälä
2007-05-05 20:08 ` Ondrej Zajicek
2007-05-05 20:34 ` Ville Syrjälä
2007-05-05 22:48 ` Luc Verhaegen
2007-05-05 23:07 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2007-05-05 23:31 ` Luc Verhaegen
2007-05-05 23:38 ` Luc Verhaegen
2007-05-06 1:36 ` Ville Syrjälä
2007-05-06 2:07 ` Luc Verhaegen
2007-05-05 23:03 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-08 6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-08 12:28 ` [PATCH] vt8623fb: Fix compile error if CONFIG_MTRR=n Antonino A. Daplas
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