From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Use ARCH_RENESAS
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:11:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160223001103.GG1853@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456106391-10353-1-git-send-email-horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Geert,
>
> On Monday 22 February 2016 13:39:37 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 February 2016 10:59:51 Simon Horman wrote:
> > >> Make use of ARCH_RENESAS in place of ARCH_SHMOBILE.
> > >>
> > >> This is part of an ongoing process to migrate from ARCH_SHMOBILE to
> > >> ARCH_RENESAS the motivation for which being that RENESAS seems to be a
> > >> more appropriate name than SHMOBILE for the majority of Renesas ARM based
> > >> SoCs.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it make sense to drop the driver instead ? We have a DRM driver
> > > that replaces it.
> >
> > Does the DRM driver work on all hardware supported by the fbdev driver?
> > It's not only used on r8a7740/armadillo (through staging/board due to lack
> > of DT support), but also on many SH boards.
>
> It's supposed to be a replacement (lacking support for SYS panels though), but
> has obviously not been tested on SH boards.
From my point of view it would be overreach to remove the driver as we
aren't in a position to test the SH boards.
We could stop using it on the Renesas ARM SoCs and in turn remove
ARCH_SHMOBILE/ARCH_RENESAS. Am I right in thinking that would only
effect the r8a7740/armadillo at this time?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-22 1:59 [PATCH] fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Use ARCH_RENESAS Simon Horman
2016-02-22 9:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-22 12:24 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-22 12:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-22 13:05 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-23 0:11 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2016-02-23 7:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-02-26 11:00 ` Tomi Valkeinen
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