Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] video: da8xx-fb: am335x DT support

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Mohammed, Afzal [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 00:15:09, Rob Clark wrote:

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Wouldn't it be better to delete da8xx-fb.* and switch to Rob Clarks DRM based driver for this IP block?

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we probably can't delete da8xx-fb, but I think it would be ok to only
use it for legacy platforms not yet ported to DT.

We can't remove da8xx-fb as DA830 is a non-DT one and DA850 is only gaining
DT support.

And Rob,

I am not familiar with drm setup, would all the user space frame buffer based
applications work as is with drm driver?

drm does provide a legacy fbdev interface (needed for fbcon, for
example).  I don't think da8xx-fb has any custom ioctls, so probably
what drm provides should be enough.

BR,
-R

Regards
Afzal