Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] staging: remove fbtft | From | Tomi Valkeinen <> | Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:36:01 +0200 |
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On 23/11/16 19:26, Noralf Trønnes wrote: > > Den 23.11.2016 09:03, skrev Tomi Valkeinen: >> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display >> drivers should be made with the DRM framework, remove fbtft from >> staging. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> > > FYI: > I'm working on a drm version of fbtft: https://github.com/notro/tinydrm > I have just picked it up after a 4 month break. > > It is ready for a new review, except that I want to test how it would > perform as a drm userspace driver first (for spi that would mean adding > dma-buf support to spidev). If this performs well, then all the fbtft > drivers could move to userspace. If it doesn't, then at least (very slow) > i2c and e-ink displays could be userspace drivers.
Alright, sounds good to me.
So let's keep the staging fbdev drivers there until we have replacements.
Tomi
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