Drivers have not seen any love for years.
Be that fixes or improvements, or cosmetics like introducing symbolic
names, style and code-flow polish.
Seemingly the maintainer has also disappeared years ago :-\
Considering nouveau supports all that hardware (modulo nv03) just mark
these as obsolete/broken, referring to nouveau in the help text.
v2 (Bartlomiej):
- split config changes into separate patch
- spell out nouveau DRM driver
- don't use BROKEN
- add runtime warning
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> (v1)
---
MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 4 ++++
drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c | 3 +++
drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c | 3 +++
4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 938316092634..c9498dd15e4a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -12055,9 +12055,8 @@ F: include/linux/nubus.h
F: include/uapi/linux/nubus.h
NVIDIA (rivafb and nvidiafb) FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
-M: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-S: Maintained
+S: Obsolete
F: drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/
F: drivers/video/fbdev/riva/
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index fa88e8b9a83d..ccddd06ab430 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -881,6 +881,8 @@ config FB_NVIDIA
select BITREVERSE
select VGASTATE
help
+ Obsolete, use the nouveau DRM driver instead.
+
This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia chips, TNT
and newer. For very old chipsets, such as the RIVA128, then use
the rivafb.
@@ -928,6 +930,8 @@ config FB_RIVA
select BITREVERSE
select VGASTATE
help
+ Obsolete, use the nouveau DRM driver instead.
+
This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia Riva/Geforce
chips.
Say Y if you have such a graphics board.
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
index c24de9107958..a958612ef75b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
@@ -1512,6 +1512,9 @@ static struct pci_driver nvidiafb_driver = {
static int nvidiafb_init(void)
{
+ pr_warn("Legacy nvidiafb framebuffer driver will be removed in 2022\n"
+ "Please switch to nouveau DRM driver\n");
+
#ifndef MODULE
char *option = NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c
index 764ec3285e62..c2788e22f5c1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c
@@ -2160,6 +2160,9 @@ static struct pci_driver rivafb_driver = {
static int rivafb_init(void)
{
+ pr_warn("Legacy rivafb framebuffer driver will be removed in 2022\n"
+ "Please switch to nouveau DRM driver\n");
+
#ifndef MODULE
char *option = NULL;
--
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