Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: xilinxfb: remove the driver

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On 11/10/26 04:55, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> On 11/9/2026 7:17 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 10:39:01PM +0530, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
>>> Remove xilinx framebuffer soft IP driver. This IP core relies on Xilinx
>>> Platform Studio (XPS) and the ISE Design suite, both of which were
>>> discontinued by Xilinx years ago. Furthermore, modern AMD toolchains
>>> (Vivado Design Suite and Vitis) provide no support for the legacy PLB
>>> (Processor Local Bus) architecture used by these cores. As a result,
>>> no new hardware designs can be built using this IP.
>>>
>>> Nothing in the tree document the driver compatible strings. Given the
>>> complete obsolescence of the supporting hardware development tools
>>> and the lack of upstream users, remove the dead driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> You can include here defconfig update.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the review. Based on Michal’s suggestion during the
> internal review, I left this out of the current series and plan to
> send defconfig update as a follow-up once this series is applied as
> it will go through his tree.

FYI, I've applied your series to the fbdev git tree.

Thanks!
Helge

> 
> Thanks,
> Radhey