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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
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Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.
>>
>> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be
>> applied. Only for review.
>
> +1 from my side. Now that we have the simple pipe helpers in drm-kms, and
> a few drivers starting to use them, there's really no reasons left anymore
> to have fbdev drivers.

I haven't been following this that closely, so can you please point me to a
sample DRM driver using this simple pipe helper?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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