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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:21:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXCTo4keP6vcXzxS1OQcdPC48eMu3H=D7mW-bWgrSsN6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1309201946430.8379@linux-mips.org>

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
<macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>  Thanks, but the changes required are actually much more than that -- the
> driver has never been converted to the modern TURBOchannel API.  I have
> now dug out an old patch I was working on back in 2006 to convert this
> driver as well as drivers/video/maxinefb.c.  I'll try to complete the two
> drivers as soon as possible (unfortunately I can't test the latter at all;
> it's for an onboard graphics adapter of another DECstation model),
> although I now remember the main reason I didn't complete them back then
> was they used an old internal API that was removed and no suitable
> replacement provided.  I need to investigate again what that actually was
> though (hw cursor probably).

pmag-aa-fb.c still has struct display_switch (for the old drawing API) and the
old fb_ops (with get_var()/get_fix()), instead of the new fb_ops (rectangular
drawing API and var/fix as member data).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-22 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-20  1:53 [PATCH 1/2] framebuffer: arkfb: Fix framebugger typo Joe Perches
2013-09-20  1:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb Joe Perches
2013-09-20  7:33   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-20 18:18     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-09-20 18:43       ` Joe Perches
2013-09-22 20:09         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-09-22 20:21           ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2013-09-22 21:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-10-12 13:08           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-10-12 16:08             ` Joe Perches
2013-09-20  3:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Fix int cast to pointer warnings Joe Perches
2013-11-26 14:51   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-09-26  9:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] framebuffer: arkfb: Fix framebugger typo Tomi Valkeinen
2013-09-26 10:10   ` Joe Perches

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