From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PREVIEW 2] New display subsystem for OMAP2/3 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:40:38 +0300 Message-ID: <20080923104037.GF5102@atomide.com> References: <1222094917.8299.33.camel@tubuntu> <20080922151045.GC8171@atomide.com> <1222157985.8299.38.camel@tubuntu> <47749FCA-154E-4203-892C-5A3544F9CDFC@student.utwente.nl> <20080923092445.GA5102@atomide.com> <7863ECF6-2BE0-42B1-BDE3-DEEE7286A3A5@student.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-01-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.178]:55130 "EHLO mho-01-bos.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750920AbYIWKkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:40:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7863ECF6-2BE0-42B1-BDE3-DEEE7286A3A5@student.utwente.nl> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Koen Kooi Cc: "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org List" * Koen Kooi [080923 13:27]: > > Op 23 sep 2008, om 11:24 heeft Tony Lindgren het volgende geschreven: > >> * Koen Kooi [080923 11:41]: >>> >>> Op 23 sep 2008, om 10:19 heeft Tomi Valkeinen het volgende >>> geschreven: >>>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:10 +0300, ext Tony Lindgren wrote: >>>>> * Tomi Valkeinen [080922 17:49]: > >>>>> I sent a preview of a new display subsystem for OMAP2/3 some time >>>>>> ago: >>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=122114505030542&w=2 >>>>>> >>>>>> I now have updated it, the patches are at the same place: >>>>>> http://www.bat.org/~tomba/omap-dss/ >>>>> >>>>> This discussion should go to linux-fbdev-devel list. Please keep >>>>> l-o >>>>> list Cc'd though. Also you should post the patches as a proper >>>>> inline >>>>> series, please see git-send-email man page. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ok, I'll move it to linux-fbdev-devel. >>>> >>>> I didn't post the patches inline, as they are quite big (250k+). I >>>> thought there was a "rule" to put big patches to some public place, >>>> not >>>> to mail them. >>>> >>>> What is the proper procedure for this work? Discuss and review the >>>> patches on fbdevel, and mail to l-o when finalized? Or go directly >>>> to >>>> Linus' tree? >>> >>> Or a branch on l-o (like pm-0) that will get rebased when things >>> change. >> >> I'd suggest discussing it on fbdevel list, and then have the necessary >> patches included into the mainline kernel via fbdevel. If you cc l-o >> list, people will have a chance to comment also. > > This patch also hooks into boardcode for omap3 boards, which AFAIK > aren't in mainline yet, which makes it hard to funnel a working patch > through the fbdev tree to mainline. But apart from that, going through > fbdev-devel first would cut down on tedious review rounds later on. > Does davinci share enough bits to make this DSS lib work for that as > well? The drivers should be independent of the platform_data in the board-*.c files as it may take a while longer to get the omap3 board-*.c files into the mainline kernel. Tony