[PATCH v4 0/6] SimpleDRM Driver

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi David,

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:34 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:36 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> With the upcoming 3.12 merge-window, I thought people might find themselves with
>> nothing to do, so here's a new SimpleDRM series. Comments welcome!
>>
>> This depends on the tip/x86/fb series in the x86-tip tree:
>>   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=x86/fb
>> Which, as far as I understood, will be pushed into 3.12 by the x86 people.
>
> FYI, this is now merged in Linus' tree. See:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228abe73ad67665d71eacd6a8a347dd76b0115ae
>
> So hopefully we can get SimpleDRM ready for 3.13.

Now that simplefb works for me, I finally got around to testing this.
Just a couple of comments:

 * I guess you need to add the modalias "platform:simple-framebuffer"
in addition to the "of:..." one to get module auto loading working.

 * the driver currently doesn't work with your IORESOURCE_BUSY fix to
sysfb (as might be expected(?)):
        simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: cannot reserve VMEM
        simple-framebuffer: probe of simple-framebuffer.0 failed with error -5

* except for that, fbcon on top of the fbdev fallback support works
fine for me. I didn't yet try the drm driver itself, what clients (if
any) are supposed to work with this, kmscon, weston?

Cheers,

Tom