On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The issues surrounding DT and DRM were given an airing last week at > kernel summit in a session chaired by David Airlie. > > The Kernel Summit session was to discuss issues surrounding DT and DRM, > or more specifically DT and componentised subsystems like DRM, ASoC and > V4L2. Grant Likely has said that he will attempt to summarise some of > the discussion there; unfortunately I'm not aware of anyone making any > real "minutes" of what was discussed - it wasn't a formal session. > > I also had discussions with David Airlie and, separately, with the > Pengutronix folk about imx-drm. > > It is very clear to me that David is against imx-drm moving into > drivers/gpu/drm - the driver requires an amount of rework in various > places. So I don't think it will move out of drivers/staging any > time soon. > > I have a few other bits to sort out first, but I've volunteered to try > to resolve some of these blocking issues so that imx-drm can move > forward and hopefully out of staging. > > To put it another way, moving this driver out of staging is not as > simple as moving the files; it requires real work to address the > issues the subsystem maintainer has with this code. Thanks for your detailed explanation, Russell. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
