RE: [PREVIEW 2] New display subsystem for OMAP2/3

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony
> Lindgren
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:11 PM
> To: Koen Kooi
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List
> Subject: Re: [PREVIEW 2] New display subsystem for OMAP2/3
> 
> * Koen Kooi <k.kooi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [080923 13:27]:
> >
> > Op 23 sep 2008, om 11:24 heeft Tony Lindgren het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >> * Koen Kooi <k.kooi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [080923 11:41]:
> >>>
> >>> Op 23 sep 2008, om 10:19 heeft Tomi Valkeinen het volgende
> >>> geschreven:
> >>>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:10 +0300, ext Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >>>>> * Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxx> [080922 17:49]:
> >
> >>>>> I sent a preview of a new display subsystem for OMAP2/3 some time
> >>>>>> ago:
> >>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=122114505030542&w=2
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I now have updated it, the patches are at the same place:
> >>>>>> http://www.bat.org/~tomba/omap-dss/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This discussion should go to linux-fbdev-devel list. Please keep
> >>>>> l-o
> >>>>> list Cc'd though. Also you should post the patches as a proper
> >>>>> inline
> >>>>> series, please see git-send-email man page.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, I'll move it to linux-fbdev-devel.
> >>>>
> >>>> I didn't post the patches inline, as they are quite big (250k+). I
> >>>> thought there was a "rule" to put big patches to some public place,
> >>>> not
> >>>> to mail them.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the proper procedure for this work? Discuss and review the
> >>>> patches on fbdevel, and mail to l-o when finalized? Or go directly
> >>>> to
> >>>> Linus' tree?
> >>>
> >>> Or a branch on l-o (like pm-0)  that will get rebased when things
> >>> change.
> >>
> >> I'd suggest discussing it on fbdevel list, and then have the necessary
> >> patches included into the mainline kernel via fbdevel. If you cc l-o
> >> list, people will have a chance to comment also.
> >
> > This patch also hooks into boardcode for omap3 boards, which AFAIK
> > aren't in mainline yet, which makes it hard to funnel a working patch
> > through the fbdev tree to mainline. But apart from that, going through
> > fbdev-devel first would cut down on tedious review rounds later on.
> > Does davinci share enough bits to make this DSS lib work for that as
> > well?
> 

I believe that this discussion is happening for separate FBDEV driver which will be
compliant to DSS library posted few days back (http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/24409-omap2-3-dss-library.html).


> The drivers should be independent of the platform_data in the
> board-*.c files as it may take a while longer to get the omap3
> board-*.c files into the mainline kernel.
> 
> Tony
> 
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