sparc ffb drm driver...

sparc ffb drm driver...

[Dave Airlie]

This driver is broken and has been since my first CVS merge went in back
in April, I just noticed there now when trying to fix it up for some other
changes that I was making,

List of issues:
a) no-one has complained or noticed it has been broken for at least 4
months
b) there is no current user space to go with the kernel space driver (Mesa
DRI driver is broken as far as I know....)
c) no-one has stepped up to maintain it
d) no-one has a working user space to tell me I broke the kernel space or
test it for me ..

Unless we can up with some plan for the future (user and kernel space),
this driver will be marked broken in my next merge and may in fact end
up broken as a side effect of the changes for the core/personality split..

Dave.

p.s. I'd love to take it on, but I've no sparc hardware and no real spare
time even if I had...

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person

Re: sparc ffb drm driver...

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:38:08PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> This driver is broken and has been since my first CVS merge went in
> back in April, I just noticed there now when trying to fix it up for
> some other changes that I was making,
> List of issues:
> a) no-one has complained or noticed it has been broken for at least 4
> months
> b) there is no current user space to go with the kernel space driver (Mesa
> DRI driver is broken as far as I know....)
> c) no-one has stepped up to maintain it
> d) no-one has a working user space to tell me I broke the kernel space or
> test it for me ..
> Unless we can up with some plan for the future (user and kernel space),
> this driver will be marked broken in my next merge and may in fact end
> up broken as a side effect of the changes for the core/personality split..
> Dave.
> p.s. I'd love to take it on, but I've no sparc hardware and no real spare
> time even if I had...

I think all my sparc32 and UltraSPARC hardware is too ancient or crappy
to help with this, at the very least because it's all headless.

-- wli

Re: sparc ffb drm driver...

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:38:08 +0100 (IST)
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> wrote:

> Unless we can up with some plan for the future (user and kernel space),
> this driver will be marked broken in my next merge and may in fact end
> up broken as a side effect of the changes for the core/personality split..

I agree, let's toss it for now.  It's there in the history and
it can be resurrected if anyone wants to.

In my most recent patches to the sunffb x11 driver I had to disable
drm entirely after adding Render support.