[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Adrian Bunk]

This patch removes video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_ATARI
- FB_SUN3
- FB_PM3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be 
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is 
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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Due to it's size, the patch is available at
  http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/misc/patch-remove-broken-video.gz

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   62 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    6 
 drivers/video/atafb.c   | 3107 ----------------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2297 -------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ----
 drivers/video/pm3fb.c   | 3641 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -----------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ---
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ---------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ---
 include/video/pm3fb.h   | 1235 -------------
 12 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16150 deletions(-)

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Michael Schmitz]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This patch removes video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
>
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_ATARI

FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
the final one soonish.

	Michael

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch removes video drivers that:
> > - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> > - are still marked as BROKEN.
> >
> > These are the following drivers:
> > - FB_CYBER
> > - FB_VIRGE
> > - FB_RETINAZ3
> > - FB_ATARI
> 
> FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary patch; I'll send
> the final one soonish.

Updated patch attached.
 
> 	Michael

cu
Adrian


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This patch removes video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_SUN3
- FB_PM3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   55 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    5 
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2297 -------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ----
 drivers/video/pm3fb.c   | 3641 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -----------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ---
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ---------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ---
 include/video/pm3fb.h   | 1235 -------------
 11 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13035 deletions(-)


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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:

Michael> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> This patch removes video drivers that: - had already been marked as
>> BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and - are still marked as BROKEN.
>> 
>> These are the following drivers: - FB_CYBER - FB_VIRGE -
>> FB_RETINAZ3 - FB_ATARI

Michael> FB_ATARI has just been revived. Geert has a preliminary
Michael> patch; I'll send the final one soonish.

I'm probably the only one with a RetinaZ3 left but the machine hasn't
been booted for quite a while..... not sure if I'll get to it in the
near future, but I can always resurrect the patches from an old kernel
and start from there if I do.

Jes

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers

[James Simmons]

> This patch removes video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_ATARI
> - FB_SUN3
> - FB_PM3

If someone is willing to send me a Permedia3 card I can port the driver. 
The rest are m68k drivers. I do have S3Trio and a Virge card but no specs.