On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:06:41PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 05/18/2012 02:27 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The following adds a drm/kms driver for the Freescale i.MX LCDC > > controller. Most notable change to the last SDRM based version is that > > the SDRM layer has been removed and the driver now is purely i.MX > > specific. I hope that this is more acceptable now. > > > > Another change is that the probe is now devicetree based. For now I > > took the easy way out and only put an edid blob into the devicetree. > > I haven't documented the binding yet, I would add that when the rest > > is considered ok. > > > > Comments very welcome. > > > > Hi, > > I really liked the sdrm layer. At least some bits of it. I've been working > on a "simple" DRM driver as well. The hardware has no fancy acceleration > features, just a simple buffer and some scanout logic. I'm basically using > the same gem buffer structure and the buffer is also allocated using > dma_alloc_writecombine, which means we can probably share all of the GEM > handling code and probably also most of the fbdev code. I also started with > the Exynos GEM code as a template, but reworked it later to be more like the > UDL code, which made it a bit more compact. I think it would be a good idea > to put at least the GEM handling in some common code as I expect that we'll > see more similar "simple" DRM drivers pop up. Ok, I'll try to put the GEM stuff into helper functions. Would you care to review/test it? I have something else to do right now but I hope I'll be there next week. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
