Unfortunately, the framebuffer maintainer Tomi Valkeinen wants to remove fbtft from drivers staging directory in the Linux kernel source. The creator of fbtft, Noralf, is working on a potential successor named TinyDRM.
If tinydrm is not ready by the time fbtft is removed, then we'll have to go back to adding these fbtft drivers as patch to the BeagleBone kernel. thanks, drew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:03 AM Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] staging: remove fbtft To: [email protected], [email protected], Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>, Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>, Noralf Trønnes <[email protected]>, Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>, Teddy Wang <[email protected]>, Arnaud Patard <[email protected]> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]>, [email protected] Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers should be made with the DRM framework, remove fbtft from staging. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]> --- MAINTAINERS | 6 - drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 - drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 - drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig | 210 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/Makefile | 40 - drivers/staging/fbtft/README | 32 - drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_agm1264k-fl.c | 456 --------- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_bd663474.c | 184 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8340bn.c | 234 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8347d.c | 169 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8353d.c | 157 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8357d.c | 210 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8357d.h | 70 -- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9163.c | 273 ------ drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9320.c | 278 ------ drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9325.c | 277 ------ drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9340.c | 149 --- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9341.c | 166 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9481.c | 112 --- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9486.c | 112 --- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_pcd8544.c | 176 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ra8875.c | 318 ------- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_s6d02a1.c | 166 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_s6d1121.c | 194 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1289.c | 191 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1305.c | 216 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1306.c | 217 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1325.c | 205 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c | 196 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c | 238 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_st7735r.c | 190 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_st7789v.c | 265 ------ drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c | 112 --- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tls8204.c | 169 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_uc1611.c | 340 ------- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_uc1701.c | 179 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_upd161704.c | 197 ---- drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_watterott.c | 302 ------ drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c | 252 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c | 1467 ----------------------------- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-io.c | 238 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c | 219 ----- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h | 421 --------- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c | 1597 -------------------------------- drivers/staging/fbtft/flexfb.c | 619 ------------- drivers/staging/fbtft/internal.h | 25 - 46 files changed, 11847 deletions(-) -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAEf4M_DKBVwUYP%2BopdVP7A756bVVEmd-6Xhzc2ArE2bUVe5EsQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
