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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 08:14:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:12:14PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, please don't add new features to this codebase, fix it up so it
> gets out of staging first, I'm not going to take any of these (not the
> least reason being that I wasn't even cc:ed on them...)

Yeah I think imx works a bit like a driver outside of staging with patches
submitted to the subsystem and reviewed all there like normal. Except it's
not ...
-Daniel
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