From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:54:54 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1309222244170.16797@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdXCTo4keP6vcXzxS1OQcdPC48eMu3H=D7mW-bWgrSsN6w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Thanks, but the changes required are actually much more than that -- the
> > driver has never been converted to the modern TURBOchannel API. I have
> > now dug out an old patch I was working on back in 2006 to convert this
> > driver as well as drivers/video/maxinefb.c. I'll try to complete the two
> > drivers as soon as possible (unfortunately I can't test the latter at all;
> > it's for an onboard graphics adapter of another DECstation model),
> > although I now remember the main reason I didn't complete them back then
> > was they used an old internal API that was removed and no suitable
> > replacement provided. I need to investigate again what that actually was
> > though (hw cursor probably).
>
> pmag-aa-fb.c still has struct display_switch (for the old drawing API) and the
> old fb_ops (with get_var()/get_fix()), instead of the new fb_ops (rectangular
> drawing API and var/fix as member data).
That I got covered already in the old patch, but there was something
else. Otherwise I would have pushed it along updates for pmag-ba-fb.c and
pmagb-b-fb.c long ago.
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-22 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 1:53 [PATCH 1/2] framebuffer: arkfb: Fix framebugger typo Joe Perches
2013-09-20 1:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Remove pmag-aa-fb Joe Perches
2013-09-20 7:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-20 18:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-09-20 18:43 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-22 20:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-09-22 20:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-22 21:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2013-10-12 13:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-10-12 16:08 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-20 3:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] framebuffer: Fix int cast to pointer warnings Joe Perches
2013-11-26 14:51 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2013-09-26 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] framebuffer: arkfb: Fix framebugger typo Tomi Valkeinen
2013-09-26 10:10 ` Joe Perches
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