Not sure why I can't find the original in my archives... Tomi, We make a lot of use of this driver in BeagleBone land. I'd Nak this if I had an easy way to reply on the list. Can we wait for the Noralf to drive the removal and replacement?
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:41 PM Drew Fustini <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/CA%2BT6QPky%2BXtMQGBTNWdRtQLqCDOBmRUHgM7iVLkDdL4MCABvfg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
