On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Geert, > > On Monday 22 February 2016 13:39:37 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Monday 22 February 2016 10:59:51 Simon Horman wrote: > > >> Make use of ARCH_RENESAS in place of ARCH_SHMOBILE. > > >> > > >> This is part of an ongoing process to migrate from ARCH_SHMOBILE to > > >> ARCH_RENESAS the motivation for which being that RENESAS seems to be a > > >> more appropriate name than SHMOBILE for the majority of Renesas ARM based > > >> SoCs. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Wouldn't it make sense to drop the driver instead ? We have a DRM driver > > > that replaces it. > > > > Does the DRM driver work on all hardware supported by the fbdev driver? > > It's not only used on r8a7740/armadillo (through staging/board due to lack > > of DT support), but also on many SH boards. > > It's supposed to be a replacement (lacking support for SYS panels though), but > has obviously not been tested on SH boards. >From my point of view it would be overreach to remove the driver as we aren't in a position to test the SH boards. We could stop using it on the Renesas ARM SoCs and in turn remove ARCH_SHMOBILE/ARCH_RENESAS. Am I right in thinking that would only effect the r8a7740/armadillo at this time? -- 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
