Hi Simon, On Tuesday 23 February 2016 09:11:03 Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:05:58PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > 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. I'd be surprised if the driver still worked on those boards, but I like good surprises :-) > 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? That's correct. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
