On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:23:29PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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. i will like to help in this. Silicon Motion is still having SM712 in its product line and SM718 might also be a similar one. now the problems (as i see) for me to help in the driver : 1) i am a newbie. though i have learnt a lot from the patches i sent , but still I am a newbie. 2) most important - I do not have the hardware. So from the TODO list dual head and 2D acceleration support will be tough without actually checking on the hardware. thanks sudip > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
