From: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] vt8623fb: New framebuffer driver for VIA VT8623
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 01:31:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505233147.GA19039@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178406457.22828.7.camel@daplas>
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:07:37AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 00:48 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
Well, my estimate for a full featured fb driver for this hardware would
be around 10kloc/300kB source.
> >
> > 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
It takes a special kind of idiot to take something like that on and
keep it up too.
Luc Verhaegen.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 23:32 UTC|newest]
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
2007-05-05 23:31 ` Luc Verhaegen [this message]
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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