From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
pengfuyuan <pengfuyuan@kylinos.cn>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>,
Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>, "Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>,
"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>,
"Zsolt Kajtar" <soci@c64.rulez.org>,
"Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 v1 0/4] [RUST] Framebuffer driver support
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:27:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c5dfd28-df86-41f3-8f73-57782c700004@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed48e82a-cb94-477f-83c4-b2d87ae3cde6@suse.de>
On 1/26/26 11:01, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Am 26.01.26 um 09:17 schrieb pengfuyuan:
>> This patch series adds Rust bindings and safe abstractions for the Linux
>> framebuffer subsystem, enabling framebuffer drivers to be implemented in Rust.
>
> The framebuffer subsystem is obsolete and has been deprecated for a
> decade. No new drivers accepted. Anything that really wants fbdev
> already has a driver. Can we please let it die?
Agreed. Adding rust bindings for fbdev doesn't make sense. Existing fbdev
drivers are often used on architectures, where rust isn't even available
(alpha, hppa, m68k, sh4, ..), so even the idea to "port" existing drivers
to rust is useless.
Helge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-26 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-26 8:17 [PATCH v1 v1 0/4] [RUST] Framebuffer driver support pengfuyuan
2026-01-26 8:17 ` [PATCH v1 v1 1/4] rust: io: mem: add ioremap_wc support pengfuyuan
2026-01-26 8:17 ` [PATCH v1 v1 2/4] rust: device: add platdata accessors pengfuyuan
2026-01-26 8:17 ` [PATCH v1 v1 3/4] rust: fb: add framebuffer driver support pengfuyuan
2026-01-26 22:29 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-26 8:17 ` [PATCH v1 v1 4/4] rust: fb: add simplefb test driver pengfuyuan
2026-01-26 10:01 ` [PATCH v1 v1 0/4] [RUST] Framebuffer driver support Thomas Zimmermann
2026-01-26 10:28 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-01-26 11:46 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-01-27 8:30 ` pengfuyuan
2026-01-27 8:04 ` pengfuyuan
2026-01-27 8:16 ` Helge Deller
2026-01-27 8:58 ` pengfuyuan
2026-01-27 9:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-27 9:38 ` Helge Deller
2026-01-28 14:55 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-01-26 12:27 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2026-01-26 10:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-26 12:15 ` Miguel Ojeda
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