[PATCH 00/72] staging imx-drm new features and fixes

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:53:43PM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> Hi, this affects only Freescale imx IPU and imx-drm staging drivers,
> except for two patches that affect drm core (patch 53 and 63, see below).
> 
> New features for imx-drm staging driver:
> 
> - Support for multi-display (HDMI and LVDS).
> - Support for global alpha and color-key properties for overlay plane.
> - Support for gamma correction.
> - The imx-drm crtc devices moved to device tree.
> - Support for defining custom display interface pixel mappings in the
>   device tree.
> - Implements encoder DPMS for LVDS.
> - YUV planar pixel formats supported for DRM framebuffers.
> - DDC support added for LVDS.
> - Page flip handling moved to imx plane driver and implemented with
>   IPU double-buffering.
> - Support page-flip in the overlay plane (patch 53 affects drm core).
> - Add support for parsing pixel clock edge select (patch 63 affects drm core).
> - Add LVDS connection detect via drm_probe_ddc().
> - Implement crtc mode_set_base using plane page-flip.

Isn't the point of staging to get the driver out of it, instead of adding
massive piles of features and continously keeping it there? Greg?
-Daniel
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