On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Am 26.01.22 um 14:32 schrieb Andy Shevchenko: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:41:41PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > > Am 26.01.22 um 11:59 schrieb Helge Deller: > > > It's always for the same reason: the hw is old and devs have moved on. > > > > It's pity to have a working system with an old hardware that no one in > > the kernel community gives a shit about because simply they are not in > > the same boat. Try to be on the people's position... > > Yes, I do care about old hardware. I made helpers for converting fbdev > drivers to DRM. I even made the initial commits for those drivers where I > could find the HW on Ebay. [1] I made sure that every single of them at > least gets fbcon onto the screen. So interested devs could start > immediately. Thanks for doing that, I at least appreciate it. > Yet, no one ever showed up to convert even a single driver. I have helper in a limited way to test / enable drivers on some platforms where it wasn't possible before (you can easily see what I have done by running `git log --oneline --author="Andy Shevchenko" -- drivers/video drivers/gpu/drm drivers/staging/fbtft`), but DRM is completely new subsystem to me if we talk about driver conversion or so. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
