On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 05:55:23AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > >> This has occasionally come up in the past and I seem to remember that it > >> had once been proposed to simply remove tegra-gart and there had been no > >> objections. Adding Dmitry, if he doesn't have objections to remaving it, > >> neither do I. > > > > Dmitry, please say yes and I will remove it instead of trying to carry > > it. The driver is almost 10 years old at this point, I'm skeptical > > anyone will need it on a 6.2 era kernel.. > > You probably missed that support for many of 10 years old Tegra2/3 > devices was added to kernel during last years. > > This GART isn't used by upstream DRM driver, but it's used by downstream > kernel which uses alternative Tegra DRM driver that works better for > older hardware. It is kernel policy not to carry code to only support out of tree drivers in mainline, so it should be removed, thanks Jason
