Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] drm: Allow simpledrm to setup its emulated FB as firmware provided

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Hello Daniel,

On 5/5/22 14:11, Daniel Vetter wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> And while I agree with you that these midlayer flags are horrible, that is
>> what any other fbdev that makes use of a firmware-provided framebuffer set,
>> so simpledrm emulated fbdev shouldn't be the exception IMO.
> 
> So we discussed this a pile more on irc, and at least my take is that
> people who run simpledrm but want to combine that with fbdev drivers and
> expect it to all work nicely we can probably ignore. At least until all
> this sysfb stuff is nicely unified, and at that point we shouldn't need
> special flags anymore.

I'm OK with this take and happy to just drop this patch-set then. My worry
was just that someone could complain that we broke their uncommon setup [0].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1172/.

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat




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