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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:14:27 +0200

> Hi Bartlomiej!
> 
> On 10/18/2017 02:56 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> igafb driver hasn't compiled since at least kernel v2.6.34 as
>> commit 6016a363f6b5 ("of: unify phandle name in struct device_node")
>> missed updating igafb.c to use dp->phandle instead of dp->node.
> Would it take a lot of work to port the driver to the new interface?
> 
> I'm not sure which SPARC machines use this particular framebuffer, but
> my plans are to fix up all these old framebuffer drivers. I have
> already
> received several Amiga (Zorro) graphics cards for testing the updated
> drivers on Amiga.
> 
> It could be that I actually have this particular SPARC framebuffer in
> my hardware collection.

Unless you have a 32-bit sparc laptop, you don't have a machine that
will use this driver.