fbdev development status?

fbdev development status?

[Ville Syrjälä]

What's going on with fbdev development these days? My latest atyfb 
patches received an ACK from Alex but that was it. They haven't 
been applied to any tree.

I don't think I've seen any messages from Tony in month or so...

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Ville Syrjälä
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Re: fbdev development status?

[James Simmons]

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Since the beginning of this project there has been a rotation of 
maintainers. Unfortunely this project is not supported ($) by anyone
so it is entirely voluntery. Our jobs often go over the normal hours of 
work to complete a project so our free time is taken away. That has been 
the case for me for the last several years. I have just left my job doing 
middleware to go back to kernel development. So in the next few weeks I 
will be coming back to working on the fbdev layer. Right now Geert seems 
to be picking up the work. Thank you.

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Ville Syrjälä wrote:

> What's going on with fbdev development these days? My latest atyfb
> patches received an ACK from Alex but that was it. They haven't
> been applied to any tree.
>
> I don't think I've seen any messages from Tony in month or so...
>
>

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Re: fbdev development status?

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:24:44AM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> Since the beginning of this project there has been a rotation of 
> maintainers. Unfortunely this project is not supported ($) by anyone
> so it is entirely voluntery. Our jobs often go over the normal hours of 
> work to complete a project so our free time is taken away.

I understand completely.

> That has been 
> the case for me for the last several years. I have just left my job doing 
> middleware to go back to kernel development. So in the next few weeks I 
> will be coming back to working on the fbdev layer. Right now Geert seems 
> to be picking up the work. Thank you.

OK. I'm just wondering who to pester to get my pactches included.

Does anyone know what happened to Tony? It looks like he simply 
disappeared and I don't remember seeing any "I quit" notice...

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Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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Re: fbdev development status?

[James Simmons]

>> Since the beginning of this project there has been a rotation of
>> maintainers. Unfortunely this project is not supported ($) by anyone
>> so it is entirely voluntery. Our jobs often go over the normal hours of
>> work to complete a project so our free time is taken away.
>
> I understand completely.

I'm looking at the patches now. It will take a few days looking at 
everything plus several purposals on the lkml.

>> That has been
>> the case for me for the last several years. I have just left my job doing
>> middleware to go back to kernel development. So in the next few weeks I
>> will be coming back to working on the fbdev layer. Right now Geert seems
>> to be picking up the work. Thank you.
>
> OK. I'm just wondering who to pester to get my pactches included.
>
> Does anyone know what happened to Tony? It looks like he simply
> disappeared and I don't remember seeing any "I quit" notice...

I'm a bit worried myself. Is he in good health or has work kept him 
occupied? We lost Brad Douglas to poor heath. I haven't heard from him in 
a long time. Sometimes I think about him as well.


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