[PATCH RFC 000/111] Etnaviv DRM driver

[Jean-Michel Hautbois]

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for the patch series ! It sounds great, even if it probably
needs to be squashed down to some patches, as most of the patches are
fixes.

2015-04-02 22:01 GMT+02:00 Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 02.04.2015, 16:43 +0100 schrieb Russell King - ARM
>> Linux:
>>> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:29:02PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
>>> > Hey all,
>>> >
>>> > this is the Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante embedded GPUs. It is heavily
>>> > influenced by the MSM driver, as can be clearly seen with the first commits.
>>>
>>> You should be copying Greg KH for staging too.
>>>
>> I didn't do that on purpose. As stated below in the cover letter I'm not
>> really happy to push things into staging. Especially after the
>> experience with imx-drm, where it took us a considerable amount of work
>> to even get people to look at the code after it had landed in staging.
>>
>> If possible I would like to collect feedback now and only if someone
>> feels genuinely unhappy about this code living under drivers/gpu/drm
>> then keep it in staging. Otherwise I would like to move it when removing
>> the RFC from this patchset.
>
> Looks good so far Lucas on my wand quad..
>
> Where's your libdrm/mesa tree located that you've been working on?
>
> debian at arm:~$ uname -r
> 4.0.0-rc6-armv7-devel-r24
> debian at arm:~$ dmesg | grep etnaviv
> [    3.711866] etnaviv gpu-subsystem: bound 134000.gpu (ops gpu_ops)
> [    3.718015] etnaviv gpu-subsystem: bound 130000.gpu (ops gpu_ops)
> [    3.724133] etnaviv gpu-subsystem: bound 2204000.gpu (ops gpu_ops)
> [    3.730351] etnaviv-gpu 134000.gpu: model: GC320, revision: 5007
> [    3.771045] etnaviv-gpu 130000.gpu: model: GC2000, revision: 5108
> [    3.802887] etnaviv-gpu 2204000.gpu: model: GC355, revision: 1215
> [    3.848287] [drm] Initialized etnaviv 1.0.0 20150302 on minor 1

Exactly the same question, I would like to give it a try on my board,
how can I test it ?

Thanks,
JM