On 06/13/2018 03:52 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It seems to me a rather extreme measure though, given we could fix the >> situation rather easily. > > There are dtb's using the fbdev mxsfb driver like for example: > arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts > > If we kill the fbdev mxsfb driver then the display will stop working > for some users and I don't think they will be happy. Maybe it's time to fix them ? Having two drivers for the same hardware in the kernel is a bad idea and the new driver was in the kernel for long enough for the user of the old deprecated bindings migrated over I think. > Last time I tried it was not possible to use the original fbdev mxsfb > bindings with the new drm driver. > > Of course we can convert to the drm mxsfb driver, but IMHO we should > avoid functional breakage all of a sudden. The driver was in the kernel for over a year now though, so it's not new and sudden anymore. > In the meantime Stefan's patch seems to be a good approach. > -- Best regards, Marek Vasut _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
