On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 05:09:25PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Someone reported a bug in the function graph tracer for MIPS. As I'm > still waiting on my USB serial for my Imagination MIPS board, I decided > to bring my Lemote Yeeloong laptop back up to the latest kernel. This > is where I noticed that the screen no longer displays anything. > > I ran a bisect, which came across a staging commit that removed the > sm7xxfb driver. When I reverted it on a v3.18-rc5 kernel and booted it > on my Lemote laptop, the display worked again. > > I then did a search for this commit and found that Debian reverted it > too. Seems that there's still some Debian users of this laptop. (RMS?) > > What needs to be done to make this a "proper" driver? I can try to > support it, although I have no idea how it works :-) Have you read the TODO file in this patch? If you are willing to work on this, I'll be glad to apply it, but the reason I removed it was because no one had done anything with it for a very long time. It needs a maintainer / developer, otherwise I can't take this. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
