[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Adrian Bunk]

This patch removes video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_ATARI
- FB_SUN3
- FB_PM3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be 
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is 
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

Due to it's size, the patch is available at
  http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/misc/patch-remove-broken-video.gz

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   62 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    6 
 drivers/video/atafb.c   | 3107 ----------------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2297 -------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ----
 drivers/video/pm3fb.c   | 3641 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -----------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ---
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ---------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ---
 include/video/pm3fb.h   | 1235 -------------
 12 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16150 deletions(-)

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Michael Schmitz]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This patch removes video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
>
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_ATARI

FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
the final one soonish.

	Michael

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch removes video drivers that:
> > - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> > - are still marked as BROKEN.
> >
> > These are the following drivers:
> > - FB_CYBER
> > - FB_VIRGE
> > - FB_RETINAZ3
> > - FB_ATARI
> 
> FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
> the final one soonish.

Thanks for this information.

Are any of the following Atari options that are also on my
"BROKEN since at least 2.6.0" list also being revived?

- HADES (arch/m68k/Kconfig)
- ATARI_ACSI (drivers/net/Kconfig)
- ATARI_BIONET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
- ATARI_PAMSNET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
- ATARI_SCSI (drivers/scsi/Kconfig)

> 	Michael

cu
Adrian

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[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch removes video drivers that:
> > - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> > - are still marked as BROKEN.
> >
> > These are the following drivers:
> > - FB_CYBER
> > - FB_VIRGE
> > - FB_RETINAZ3
> > - FB_ATARI
> 
> FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
> the final one soonish.

Updated patch attached.
 
> 	Michael

cu
Adrian


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This patch removes video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_SUN3
- FB_PM3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   55 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    5 
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2297 -------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ----
 drivers/video/pm3fb.c   | 3641 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -----------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ---
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ---------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ---
 include/video/pm3fb.h   | 1235 -------------
 11 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13035 deletions(-)


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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Are any of the following Atari options that are also on my
> "BROKEN since at least 2.6.0" list also being revived?
> 
> - HADES (arch/m68k/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_ACSI (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_BIONET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_PAMSNET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_SCSI (drivers/scsi/Kconfig)

AFAIK, Michael is also working on ATARI_SCSI.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Michael Schmitz]

> > > - FB_ATARI
> >
> > FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
> > the final one soonish.
>
> Thanks for this information.
>
> Are any of the following Atari options that are also on my
> "BROKEN since at least 2.6.0" list also being revived?
>
> - HADES (arch/m68k/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_ACSI (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_BIONET (drivers/net/Kconfig)

These three I can try to 'revive' without actually being able to test
them.

> - ATARI_PAMSNET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> - ATARI_SCSI (drivers/scsi/Kconfig)

These two (assuming PAMSNET is the VME ethercard) I can even test myself.
So you can mark them 'being worked on'...

	Michael

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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[James Simmons]

> This patch removes video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_ATARI
> - FB_SUN3
> - FB_PM3

If someone is willing to send me a Permedia3 card I can port the driver. 
The rest are m68k drivers. I do have S3Trio and a Virge card but no specs.

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:17:28AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > - FB_ATARI
> > >
> > > FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
> > > the final one soonish.
> >
> > Thanks for this information.
> >
> > Are any of the following Atari options that are also on my
> > "BROKEN since at least 2.6.0" list also being revived?
> >
> > - HADES (arch/m68k/Kconfig)
> > - ATARI_ACSI (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> > - ATARI_BIONET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> 
> These three I can try to 'revive' without actually being able to test
> them.
> 
> > - ATARI_PAMSNET (drivers/net/Kconfig)
> > - ATARI_SCSI (drivers/scsi/Kconfig)
> 
> These two (assuming PAMSNET is the VME ethercard) I can even test myself.
> So you can mark them 'being worked on'...

Thanks, I've removed them from my death row.

> 	Michael

cu
Adrian

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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:

Michael> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> This patch removes video drivers that: - had already been marked as
>> BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and - are still marked as BROKEN.
>> 
>> These are the following drivers: - FB_CYBER - FB_VIRGE -
>> FB_RETINAZ3 - FB_ATARI

Michael> FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary
Michael> patch; I'll send the final one soonish.

I'm probably the only one with a RetinaZ3 left but the machine hasn't
been booted for quite a while..... not sure if I'll get to it in the
near future, but I can always resurrect the patches from an old kernel
and start from there if I do.

Jes

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Jes Sorensen]

Grrrrrrrrrr

Someone cross posted this to one of those idiotic messed up
members-only lists, namely linux-fbdev-devel.

I don't know who did that, but please leave that broken list off the
CC list when cross postings to properly configured mailing lists such
as linux-m68k and linux-kernel, until the admin of linux-fbdev-devel
gets a clue.

Jes


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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Grrrrrrrrrr
> 
> Someone cross posted this to one of those idiotic messed up
> members-only lists, namely linux-fbdev-devel.
> 
> I don't know who did that, but please leave that broken list off the
> CC list when cross postings to properly configured mailing lists such
> as linux-m68k and linux-kernel, until the admin of linux-fbdev-devel
> gets a clue.

Thank you for offering to take over my job of rejecting spam on the linux-fbdev
mailing lists!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Jes Sorensen]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> I don't know who did that, but please leave that broken list off the
>> CC list when cross postings to properly configured mailing lists such
>> as linux-m68k and linux-kernel, until the admin of linux-fbdev-devel
>> gets a clue.
> 
> Thank you for offering to take over my job of rejecting spam on the linux-fbdev
> mailing lists!

And thats any different from lists on other servers, such as kernel.org?
If the sourceforce people can't run list, just talk to Matti or DaveM
and move it to kernel.org.

Jes

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