From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:00:13 +0000 Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Message-Id: <201509251300.13702.linux@rainbow-software.org> List-Id: References: <5603EC15.9090605@ti.com> <20150925084923.GD5273@blackmetal.musicnaut.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20150925084923.GD5273@blackmetal.musicnaut.iki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , linux-fbdev , Teddy Wang , Aaro Koskinen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tomi Valkeinen , Laurent Pinchart , Daniel Vetter , Dave Airlie , Sudip Mukherjee On Friday 25 September 2015, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:27:01PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > > fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All > > new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. > > > > So let's not add any more new fbdev drivers. > > > > I will continue to maintain the current fbdev drivers, and I don't mind > > adding some new features to those current drivers, as long as the amount > > of code required to add the features stays sensible. > > > > I see we have three fbdev drivers in staging: xgifb, fbtft and sm750fb, > > and the question is what to do with those. > > I was still planning to work on xgifb as I need it on some systems for > the console. xgifb supports these devices: PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_20 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_27 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_40 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_42 Two of them are already supported by sisfb: PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_20 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_40 So I think that support for the remaining two (and missing features, if any) should be added to sisfb. -- Ondrej Zary