From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754843AbdKINlb (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:41:31 -0500 Received: from mailout1.samsung.com ([203.254.224.24]:37079 "EHLO mailout1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754796AbdKINl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:41:27 -0500 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mailout1.samsung.com 20171109134125epoutp01e8e8daf3fb6d1aeab331deb1ada48917~1bqCH6Ocg2180521805epoutp01U X-AuditID: b6c32a46-46dff700000010ca-9a-5a045b05d78f From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Ondrej Zary Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, David Miller , glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, bhumirks@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: remove dead igafb driver Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:41:22 +0100 Message-id: <2322572.JefbQec2Tl@amdc3058> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.13.0-96-generic; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) In-reply-to: <201710181645.32708.linux@rainbow-software.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7Bit Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFmphleLIzCtJLcpLzFFi42LZdljTVJc1miXK4O5/eYtP9/rZLOacb2Gx uPL1PZvF7PfKFif6PrBaXN41h83i+84oi4aTK1gdODy2rLzJ5LFz1l12j/vdx5k8Dp47x+hx du1Zdo/Pm+QC2KK4bFJSczLLUov07RK4Mn7ev8FcMJGn4sXvvYwNjCc5uxg5OSQETCTOTPjL 3sXIxSEksINR4mJ/HwuE851Romn3MhaYqhWvV7BBJDYwSrxZe5gVwvnKKLH9wTFWkCo2ASuJ ie2rGEFsEQEdiePfb4LNZRa4wijR+/oIkMPBISxgLbH9rwlIDYuAqsTrXafYQWxeAU2J7zt7 wXpFBbwktuxrZwIp5xSwkXj01AyiRFDix+R7YAcxC8hL7Ns/lRXC1pE4e2wdI8gqCYEzbBIb p1xmg7jaRWLng5lQHwhLvDq+hR3ClpZ4tmojI4Q9HeiB3xIQzZsZJVbtngBVZC1x+PhFqA18 Eh2H/4LdLyHAK9HRJgRR4iHxunkZVLmjxMGmPmZIoJxilNi5dTfjBEbZWUgOn4Xk8FlIDl/A yLyKUSy1oDg3PbXYqMBIrzgxt7g0L10vOT93EyM4bWi57WBccs7nEKMAB6MSD++LVcxRQqyJ ZcWVuYcYJTiYlUR4Rd4ChXhTEiurUovy44tKc1KLDzFKc7AoifPWbbsWISSQnliSmp2aWpBa BJNl4uCUamBMbqr6e/XFc/djXd/v6nxfuj7z2IHM9i+3f3/ylnp4snOl6tOLxssa5xWLbP+n w/vWz73ldlZC4unJ/3eaRS5/xsDPc6BKZWrcnPJrjbVOwi/D/ogFBbL5Oxw9O4s3wrDvfPSz fK2jTAtsJoWerc5XaumN7+p0O8ux7MSPu52zO/7sk7W7faZOiaU4I9FQi7moOBEAEcr7VBcD AAA= X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFrrNLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t9jQV2WaJYog3W7hC0+3etns5hzvoXF 4srX92wWs98rW5zo+8BqcXnXHDaL7zujLBpOrmB14PDYsvImk8fOWXfZPe53H2fyOHjuHKPH 2bVn2T0+b5ILYIvisklJzcksSy3St0vgyvh5/wZzwUSeihe/9zI2MJ7k7GLk5JAQMJFY8XoF WxcjF4eQwDpGiYlH9jNDOF8ZJTbv3MAMUsUmYCUxsX0VI4gtIqAjcfz7TXaQImaBK4wSy1dO A2rn4BAWsJbY/tcEpIZFQFXi9a5T7CA2r4CmxPedvWC9ogJeElv2tTOBlHMK2Eg8emoGEhYS OMMosaaNA6JcUOLH5HssIDazgLzEvv1TWSFsLYn1O48zTWDkn4WkbBaSsllIyhYwMq9ilEwt KM5Nzy02KjDKSy3XK07MLS7NS9dLzs/dxAgM8m2Htfp3MD5eEn+IUYCDUYmH12Etc5QQa2JZ cWXuIUYJDmYlEV6Rt0Ah3pTEyqrUovz4otKc1OJDjNIcLErivPz5xyKFBNITS1KzU1MLUotg skwcnFINjAX3NSL62HTdfrg7MvCxh3zyzJy5JE822O4tf0uJuq3m0r/fS7y5tOL8D59hEuqd 880xUu6PSdH7Se8uaL891nAwxfZnnn/A+vgpjoe71x7XZ1zzaqqQXKWvfJrCmUlOcgWlb0KX zOJZWbLAjeH6tExlPRnhHyof5xUZXjF7df1UvOmR1hNuSizFGYmGWsxFxYkA1mFfe24CAAA= X-CMS-MailID: 20171109134124epcas2p155bb1b19d40c385009f02a3b62ea00b1 X-Msg-Generator: CA CMS-TYPE: 102P X-CMS-RootMailID: 20171018125650epcas1p40c181757104f1cb73b1a41596a63b465 X-RootMTR: 20171018125650epcas1p40c181757104f1cb73b1a41596a63b465 References: <20171018.142214.436255812332803507.davem@davemloft.net> <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, October 18, 2017 04:45:31 PM Ondrej Zary wrote: > 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. Interesting, the driver has never supported x86 (it has always been SPARC32 specific). Once somebody has the card we can think about adding proper DRM driver for it (shouldn't be that hard). In the meantime I've queued the patch removing dead igafb driver for 4.15. Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics