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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging

From Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging
Date 2015-09-25 15:50 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:58:31PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> 
> On 02/09/15 15:48, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 
<snip>
> 
> Is there a public datasheet for the HW?
I could not find one in Silicon Motion website. I will try to find else
I can talk to them and keep it in my github. And can send you also if
you want.
> 
> The driver as it is now is quite horrible. Huge tables of raw data,
> written directly to the registers. Lots of magic numbers all around.
> Even with a datasheet, presuming it's public and it contains all those
> values, the driver is rather unmaintainable.
> 
> All those need to be sorted out for the DRM driver anyway, so maybe it's
> better to clean up the fb driver first.
Ok. I never looked at them to see how they can be made better. I will
see.

regards
sudip
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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2015-09-24 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-25 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 06:50 +0200

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