On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 06:58:42PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > In the 2nd round of this discussion, i stated that another fb or even a > drm driver altogether seemed to be the sensible way out of this mess. > > I suggest drm_rescue. > > Very early on, now almost two months back, i used the word "denialfb". > rpifb is the real name of this thing though, but then the dt binding > names would have to change and whatnot. > > I don't get the resistance, at least not from a technical point of view. > And i do not care enough to get properly involved in this pointless and > endless discussion. drm_rescue it is. > > Luc Verhaegen. So Thierry, let's review what we have achieved here. 1) you keep simplefb absolutely true to the name. Congratulations. 2) Simplefb will only have a single user: the rpi. As the only other users i can think of, which does not have a full driver and which does not have clocks automatically disabled, are discrete cards. And they do not really tend to happen with dt or platform devices. 3) a competing driver will be created, which will do these dt-ishy things. 4) it's just a matter of time before the rpi either gets a full driver, or switches over to the driver that everyone else is actually using. And then the misnomer gets deprecated. Was that the outcome you were looking for? I think not. Luc Verhaegen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
