Re: Framebuffer support for HTC Dream

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >> > Will it have a maintainer?
> >>
> >> I did the original quick and dirty version for bringup.  Rebecca took
> >> over and (re)wrote the bulk of the driver, getting things stable for
> >> production ship of Dream and Sapphire, and Dima is currently adding
> >> support for later Qualcomm chipsets (QSD8x50, etc).  Looping them into
> >> this discussion.
> >
> > I can maintain it if noone else steps up. Of course, someone who
> > actually knows the hw/has the docs would be preferable.
> 
> As Brian mentioned, I'm the last one to touch it here, so I now own
> it. I've done a bunch refactoring to add support for the qsd8x50

Can you submit a patch adding yourself into MAINTAINERS file?

> devices. I'll post those up onto our experimental git tree (hopefully
> sometime today), and once this patch goes in, I'll make sure that we
> apply cleanly against it. Alternatively, if you like, I can
> incorporate your comments into the refactoring work I'm doing, and can
> push out the combined patch. In the future though, I'll try to be a
> lot more aggressive at sending these out for review earlier so you
> don't have to clean up our mess.

I believe it makes sense to submit patches relative to -mm tree now.


> Please feel free to CC Rebecca and myself on all the msm_fb related
> changes/discussions.
> 
> >> It would probably be worth referring to drivers like this as "for
> >> Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs" or the like, since they do work with a lot of
> >> hardware beyond just Dream.
> >
> > Well, the Dream is why I'm doing it, hence patch title. Of course,
> > Kconfig should say 'Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs', too.
> 
> I second the request that the patches for qualcomm msm7k/qsd8k generic
> support would have descriptions that refer to them as such, since the
> htc dream specific code is only in the board files in
> arch/arm/mach-msm. Note that the HTC Magic (aka the Ion, myTouch 3G,

Ok, I guess someone should do a picture of all the connections and
dictionary of all the acronyms :-).
								Pavel
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