On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 09:22:05AM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote: > On 27.05.2019 07:21, Igor Opaniuk wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've finally started looking into the cfb_console.c driver and it's > > conversion to DM_VIDEO after our initial discussion [1]. > > Unfortunately I've a bit underestimated the amount of effort that > > should be done, as mxsfb.c in the Linux mainline obviously pulls the > > whole core fb subsystem > > (drivers/video/fbdev/core), which can take a while and frankly I doubt > > that this is a proper way to do things here. > > Just wanted to mention that the Linux mxsfb fbdev driver is considered > deprecated. > > See: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/950619/#1135990 > > Also note that the new DRM driver does use OF graph style bindings, see: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb.txt > > > > > Taking into account that the deadline for DM_VIDEO conversion is > > 2019.07, it's unlikely that we will manage to do the full conversions > > this cfb_console driver and all dependent hw specific drivers in a > > proper way (where we can provide information about videomodes as > > properties in a proper nodes in DT). > > IMHO, if the deadline hinders us to do it properly, we should extend the > deadline.
Agreed. We can always extend deadlines as needed when people are working to solve the problem, and we want it solved correctly. Thanks all! -- Tom
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