From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752424Ab3IVUWB (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:22:01 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:51356 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569Ab3IVUWA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:22:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <6f500d88eb23fd9a4cfc5583f5ca17bc5f58fe24.1379641901.git.joe@perches.com> <1379702587.2301.12.camel@joe-AO722> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:21:59 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ieO-E5hC-Bs7I5-UphDRdWXimyc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Joe Perches , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , Linux Fbdev development list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux MIPS Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Thanks, but the changes required are actually much more than that -- the > driver has never been converted to the modern TURBOchannel API. I have > now dug out an old patch I was working on back in 2006 to convert this > driver as well as drivers/video/maxinefb.c. I'll try to complete the two > drivers as soon as possible (unfortunately I can't test the latter at all; > it's for an onboard graphics adapter of another DECstation model), > although I now remember the main reason I didn't complete them back then > was they used an old internal API that was removed and no suitable > replacement provided. I need to investigate again what that actually was > though (hw cursor probably). pmag-aa-fb.c still has struct display_switch (for the old drawing API) and the old fb_ops (with get_var()/get_fix()), instead of the new fb_ops (rectangular drawing API and var/fix as member data). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds