Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

From	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
Date	2016-12-08 23:10 +0100
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On Wednesday 23 November 2016 09:12 AM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 23/11/16 10:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
>>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.
>>>
<snip>
>
> Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's
> a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from
> staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC,
> mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those
> DRM drivers =).

I already have plans to convert my drivers to DRM. But it will be great 
if you can point me to a simple driver which will help me to understand 
how DRM works.

Regards
Sudip

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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 23:10 +0100

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