From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:57:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Message-Id: <1481234249.26959.55.camel@kernel.crashing.org> List-Id: References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <1481158879.26959.41.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20161208101005.6ufl3d4qvwprosju@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161208140210.rfyjf2265flsfpfj@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161208153735.74d7d350@free-electrons.com> <20161208152134.wnv4j4i6m5xpoycp@phenom.ffwll.local> <1481232877.26959.52.camel@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <1481232877.26959.52.camel@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Daniel Vetter , Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Linux Fbdev development list , Teddy Wang , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , DRI Development , Tomi Valkeinen , Sudip Mukherjee , Arnaud Patard On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, probably 1 or 2 years ago, Dave made the > argument that shadowing through memory was necessary and precluded 2D > accel, though I don't fully remember the root of the argument. If that > is indeed not the case, then my main objection is lifted. Things seem to change quickly as Daniel pointed out. So ast and cirrus seem to still use a manual dirty tracking and shadowing (though I'm not sure why), but the infrastructure for that has moved from the drivers to the helpers. bochs (qemu) doesn't seem to anymore from what I can see as it doesn't have a ->dirty callback. Cheers, Ben.