On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:26:55 +0800 Raymond Lai <airwave209gt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Usually we just want a "clean" driver in one patch, but if you have > > the full history, in the proper place, I would consider it. Have a > > pointer to it somewhere? > > > > Definitely. > > It's in a full kernel tree, at > http://git.infradead.org/geode.git/tree/dcon. Driver itself is > integrated under drivers/video/geode > That's actually pretty old; better to look at OLPC's git. > However, I also looked at the kernel tree on OLPC's own git too > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-2.6/log/?h=olpc-2.6.31 > > The DCON driver is moved out of drivers/video/geode and renamed as > olpc_dcon.* (previously gxfb_dcon.*) and had refactoring for > supporting XO-1 and XO-1.5. Seems the integration effort is not small > to me... > There's a bunch of gxfb changes in there too. I can separate out the dcon stuff from the olpc-2.6 tree and put it online. > 2010/2/24 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:41:44PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:53:18 +0800 > > > Raymond Lai <airwave209gt-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello world, > > > > > > > > I'm a OLPC XO-1 owner from HK. Out of boredom and fun I decided > > > > to make this little green baby to run Ubuntu (OK, OK...), with > > > > the help of various resources on the net, especially > > > > wiki.laptop.org. > > > > > > > > On the way of preparing the kernel, I wonder why the DCON > > > > driver (as on http://git.infradead.org/geode.git) wasn't merged > > > > back to the mainstream kernel tree? At the end, I did the > > > > changes on my own, and I'm able to compile the kernel with DCON > > > > support added. > > > > > > It was waiting on CS5535 GPIO changes. Those changes are now > > > upstream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can submit a patch for such changes with the sources on > > > > kernel.org. But a few questions... > > > > > > > > - Should I? > > > > > > Maybe. It could certainly live in the staging tree while we do > > > cleanups, and while the OLPC folks do their XO-1.5 changes. > > > Greg, what do you think? We have the full (git) history for the > > > dcon driver; should I clean those up and provide a staging tree > > > for you to pull from, or would you prefer the current driver > > > w/out the history? > > > > How is the history structured? Is it within a full kernel tree, or > > as a stand-alone driver? > > > > Usually we just want a "clean" driver in one patch, but if you have > > the full history, in the proper place, I would consider it. Have a > > pointer to it somewhere? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > > > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
