Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:19:31 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer support for HTC Dream |
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Hi!
> >> > Will it have a maintainer? > >> > >> I did the original quick and dirty version for bringup. Rebecca took > >> over and (re)wrote the bulk of the driver, getting things stable for > >> production ship of Dream and Sapphire, and Dima is currently adding > >> support for later Qualcomm chipsets (QSD8x50, etc). Looping them into > >> this discussion. > > > > I can maintain it if noone else steps up. Of course, someone who > > actually knows the hw/has the docs would be preferable. > > As Brian mentioned, I'm the last one to touch it here, so I now own > it. I've done a bunch refactoring to add support for the qsd8x50
Can you submit a patch adding yourself into MAINTAINERS file?
> devices. I'll post those up onto our experimental git tree (hopefully > sometime today), and once this patch goes in, I'll make sure that we > apply cleanly against it. Alternatively, if you like, I can > incorporate your comments into the refactoring work I'm doing, and can > push out the combined patch. In the future though, I'll try to be a > lot more aggressive at sending these out for review earlier so you > don't have to clean up our mess.
I believe it makes sense to submit patches relative to -mm tree now.
> Please feel free to CC Rebecca and myself on all the msm_fb related > changes/discussions. > > >> It would probably be worth referring to drivers like this as "for > >> Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs" or the like, since they do work with a lot of > >> hardware beyond just Dream. > > > > Well, the Dream is why I'm doing it, hence patch title. Of course, > > Kconfig should say 'Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs', too. > > I second the request that the patches for qualcomm msm7k/qsd8k generic > support would have descriptions that refer to them as such, since the > htc dream specific code is only in the board files in > arch/arm/mach-msm. Note that the HTC Magic (aka the Ion, myTouch 3G,
Ok, I guess someone should do a picture of all the connections and dictionary of all the acronyms :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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