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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:00:40 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver"
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:32:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 2) most important - I do not have the hardware. So from the TODO list
> dual head and 2D acceleration support will be tough without actually
> checking on the hardware.

For a driver like this, if you don't have the hardware, I wouldn't
recommend taking on the task of trying to fix it up and become the
maintainer, sorry.

greg k-h