Re: [PATCH 03/10] drm/armada: Drop fb gamma_set/get functions

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:19:21PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:51:18AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> The fb helper private gamma_set/get functions are only required when
> >> the driver supports paletted 8bit mode with fbdev. Armada uses 32bpp
> >> unconditionally, so this is just dead code. It also doesn't do
> >> anything really. Let's just remove it.
> >
> > This comment is misleading: Armada supports 16bpp formats as well as
> > 32bpp, and the hardware does have 8bpp modes to, but I've chosen not
> > to support the 8bpp modes.
> 
> This is purely about the fbdev emulation (and yeah need to clarify
> that), not about kms support in general. And these two gamma_set/get
> hooks are _only_ used by the fbdev emulation, and only needed if you
> do 8bit paletted mode. Ok if I change the commit message to "Armada
> used 32bpp unconditionally for fbdev emulation, ..."?

I still don't know where you get that from - the armada fbdev code
supports more than just 32bpp.  Please explain.

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