From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752264AbdJROxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:53:49 -0400 Received: from smtp-1b.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.26]:52014 "EHLO smtp-1b.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585AbdJROxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:53:47 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 481 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:53:46 EDT From: Ondrej Zary To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: remove dead igafb driver Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:45:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) Cc: David Miller , glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, bhumirks@gmail.com References: <62038aaa-7245-25be-a5db-7253eaad5cc3@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20171018.142214.436255812332803507.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20171018.142214.436255812332803507.davem@davemloft.net> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201710181645.32708.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 18 October 2017, David Miller wrote: > From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:14:27 +0200 > > > Hi Bartlomiej! > > > > On 10/18/2017 02:56 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> igafb driver hasn't compiled since at least kernel v2.6.34 as > >> commit 6016a363f6b5 ("of: unify phandle name in struct device_node") > >> missed updating igafb.c to use dp->phandle instead of dp->node. > > > > Would it take a lot of work to port the driver to the new interface? > > > > I'm not sure which SPARC machines use this particular framebuffer, but > > my plans are to fix up all these old framebuffer drivers. I have > > already > > received several Amiga (Zorro) graphics cards for testing the updated > > drivers on Amiga. > > > > It could be that I actually have this particular SPARC framebuffer in > > my hardware collection. > > Unless you have a 32-bit sparc laptop, you don't have a machine that > will use this driver. There are also some x86 PCI cards using this chip. -- Ondrej Zary