Jason/Drew, We should be in a good shape for v4.9.x-ti/v4.9.x-lts, as this will be targeting v4.10.x, but i'll be reverting it for our beagleboard.org users till tinydrm is ready to replace it..
Regards, On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Jason Kridner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- 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/CAOCHtYgrDomMWMzX0waZXZNYFi%2BT4XnSeKXCjAdjJ7WMkYyHbw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
