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.vet...@intel.com> Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.pat...@rtp-net.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO index 7eb99140a399..a1e25957bf1b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO @@ -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.pat...@rtp-net.org> -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
