Hi Laurent, On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:07 AM Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:35 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:22:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > >>> Since its incarnation in v3.7 almost 7 years ago, no users of the SH > > >>> Mobile DRM driver have appeared. > > >>> > > >>> Hence remove the driver. It can be resurrected from git history, > > >>> if/when needed. > > >>> > > >>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> > > >> I'd prefer removing the fbdev variant tbh ... > > > > > > I understand ;-) > > > > > > But sh_mobile_lcdc_fb is used on 5 legacy SuperH platforms, and 1 ARM > > > platform. At least the latter is working fine. > > > > > >> Not sure why exactly the switch never happened. > > > > > > Me neither. I^HGoogle can't even find posted patches of board integration. > > > > > > Note that both drivers lack DT support, which would be very desirable on > > > ARM, as graphics is the single remaining working driver on the Atmark > > > Techno Armadillo 800 EVA board not using DT. > > > > Ah I wondered why the drm driver isn't just automatically picked up in > > today's neat world of DT (if you enable it in .config instead of the fbdev > > one). It's not even using DT yet :-/ > > I'd prefer dropping the fbdev driver too, but that would require porting > the SH boards to the DRM driver, and implement DT support for the ARM > board. I don't think anyone is willing to invest time in this, so I'm > fine dropping this driver as the boards are pretty much dead. I would, > however, also drop the fbdev driver in that case. I agree the SH boards are pretty much dead. However, derivatives of the Armadillo-800 EVA board are still available[1], and even received a product update last month[2]. A relative made it to the International Space Station in 2017[3]. [1] https://armadillo.atmark-techno.com/products [2] https://armadillo.atmark-techno.com/armadillo-840 [3] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2017-July/064696.html BTW, do you still have the prototype integration patches for the DRM driver, presumably for SH-Mobile AP4? Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
