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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH v2] viafb: 2D engine rewrite (and viafb patches in general)
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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