On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 13:48, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 5/18/20 1:19 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:

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Hi Michael,

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 08:30, Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] wrote:

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Emil Velikov [off-list ref] writes:

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As mentioned in earlier commit, the riva and nvidia fbdev drivers have
seen no love over the years, are short on features and overall below par

Users are encouraged to switch to the nouveau drm driver instead.

v2: Split configs to separate patch, enable nouveau (Bartlomiej)

Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <redacted>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <redacted>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <redacted> (v1)
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Hi all unless, there are objections I would prefer to merge this via
the drm tree.

Have you tested that the resulting kernels work on the relevant
hardware?

Sadly, no I haven't. I'm updating the defconfigs as requested by the
fbdev maintainer.

I've just noticed that v1 (patch #1/1) & v2 (patch #1/2) lack
Cc: to powerpc Maintainers so they cannot see the context of
changes in this patch.

Haven't see any instances of fbdev/drm patches being Cc to arch/ developers.
As such I made sure the commit message illustrates 1/2 as clearly as possible.

Also you've proposed v1 yourself and it has already contained
modifications to defconfigs (removal of setting the config
options for the old drivers) in addition to marking the old
drivers as BROKEN.

It now turns out that v1 has also never been tested. :(

Please don't submit untested patches without marking them
as such.

Does x86 box with nv34 GPU count as testing? I suspect not :-(
It was been using nouveau ever since I bought it 15+ years ago.

Will be more careful in the future.

-Emil