From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Framebuffer support for HTC Dream Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:19:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20090708091930.GA24385@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090629111029.GA15514@elf.ucw.cz> <20090629123840.1e20f17d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090629211931.GD6611@elf.ucw.cz> <404ea8000906291606u600673f3r63a9ac0dfe02eea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <404ea8000906291606u600673f3r63a9ac0dfe02eea@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Dima Zavin Cc: Brian Swetland , Andrew Morton , Rebecca Schultz Zavin , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Hi! > >> > Will it have a maintainer? > >> > >> I did the original quick and dirty version for bringup. =A0Rebecca= took > >> over and (re)wrote the bulk of the driver, getting things stable f= or > >> production ship of Dream and Sapphire, and Dima is currently addin= g > >> support for later Qualcomm chipsets (QSD8x50, etc). =A0Looping the= m 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. >=20 > 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 ca= n > 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. >=20 > >> 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. >=20 > I second the request that the patches for qualcomm msm7k/qsd8k generi= c > 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 --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses= /blog.html