Re: [PATCH] fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Use ARCH_RENESAS

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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?



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