staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:04:40 +0000 (11:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:01:02 +0000 (11:01 +0100)
The fbdev subsystem is closed for new drivers, those need to become
drm ones (which generally results in smaller drivers nowadays, with
the massive amounts of shared infrastructure and helper libraries drm
has).

Although given the lack of progress since 2010, maybe time to ditch it
from staging outright?

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO

index 7eb99140a3993bba80c949dd9c7a66ceb1887776..a1e25957bf1b2898f9984f309ea16863f6a22da2 100644 (file)
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ TODO:
 - remove useless/wrong/unused code...
 - get rid of non-linux related stuff
 
+This needs to become a drm driver, the fbdev subsystem doesn't take new drivers
+anymore.
+
 Please send patches to:
 Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>