Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:51:00 +0200 | From | Florian Tobias Schandinat <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH v2] viafb: 2D engine rewrite (and viafb patches in general) |
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Jonathan Corbet schrieb: >> Do you have a pointer to the OLPC tree? > > git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6 > > They are working in the olpc-2.6.30 branch, currently.
Thanks. After having a look at it seems concerning viafb to be mostly Haralds patches with 1 or 2 extra ones.
>> I'd really like to see VX855/OLPC support in mainline as soon as >> possible as I consider it a good thing to support "new" hardware early. >> However even if I am capable to write such support based on Haralds work >> I don't want to see it in mainline as long as no one with that hardware >> tested it. > > I do have the hardware, and I've taken on the responsibility for making > pieces of it work. In my mind, that includes being responsible for > mainlining things too. I will start to work in that direction; 2.6.33 > should be a reasonable target for the bulk of it. > > My thinking, FWIW, is to turn the viafb code into something more like a > regular multi-function device driver. I've already integrated Harald's i2c > stuff with the OLPC code; I need to add proper GPIO support next. Then > there will be the V4L2 chunk for the video capture engine. Along the way, > I may try to introduce some foreign concepts like locking.
Feel free to add the things you like. The main objective is probably to get things working and stable. I do not have an idea how good that will work out as I don't know how much code that requires. If you think that's the way to go, then we'll try it and see whether it leads to something usable and maintainable.
> I have a tree on git.lwn.net now, but it's against the 2.6.30 base. I will > try to bring things forward to a more current tree sometime soon and put it > up as, at least, a place where we can see the various lines of development > going on. > > Sound good?
Jep, that's fine with me. I'll try to rebase&integrate the patches I consider interesting from Harald's tree in -mm. I guess that's a good thing to do as that's the latest used common base. Any objections?
Regards,
Florian Tobias Schandinat
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