Re: Framebuffer support for HTC Dream

Hi!

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Will it have a maintainer?

I did the original quick and dirty version for bringup.  Rebecca took
over and (re)wrote the bulk of the driver, getting things stable for
production ship of Dream and Sapphire, and Dima is currently adding
support for later Qualcomm chipsets (QSD8x50, etc).  Looping them into
this discussion.

I can maintain it if noone else steps up. Of course, someone who
actually knows the hw/has the docs would be preferable.

As Brian mentioned, I'm the last one to touch it here, so I now own
it. I've done a bunch refactoring to add support for the qsd8x50

Can you submit a patch adding yourself into MAINTAINERS file?

devices. I'll post those up onto our experimental git tree (hopefully
sometime today), and once this patch goes in, I'll make sure that we
apply cleanly against it. Alternatively, if you like, I can
incorporate your comments into the refactoring work I'm doing, and can
push out the combined patch. In the future though, I'll try to be a
lot more aggressive at sending these out for review earlier so you
don't have to clean up our mess.

I believe it makes sense to submit patches relative to -mm tree now.

Please feel free to CC Rebecca and myself on all the msm_fb related
changes/discussions.

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It would probably be worth referring to drivers like this as "for
Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs" or the like, since they do work with a lot of
hardware beyond just Dream.

Well, the Dream is why I'm doing it, hence patch title. Of course,
Kconfig should say 'Qualcomm MSM/QSD SoCs', too.

I second the request that the patches for qualcomm msm7k/qsd8k generic
support would have descriptions that refer to them as such, since the
htc dream specific code is only in the board files in
arch/arm/mach-msm. Note that the HTC Magic (aka the Ion, myTouch 3G,

Ok, I guess someone should do a picture of all the connections and
dictionary of all the acronyms :-).
								Pavel
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