[RFC PATCH 3/3] staging: remove fbtft

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 23/11/16 19:26, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> 
> Den 23.11.2016 09:03, skrev Tomi Valkeinen:
>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display
>> drivers should be made with the DRM framework, remove fbtft from
>> staging.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> 
> FYI:
> I'm working on a drm version of fbtft: https://github.com/notro/tinydrm
> I have just picked it up after a 4 month break.
> 
> It is ready for a new review, except that I want to test how it would
> perform as a drm userspace driver first (for spi that would mean adding
> dma-buf support to spidev). If this performs well, then all the fbtft
> drivers could move to userspace. If it doesn't, then at least (very slow)
> i2c and e-ink displays could be userspace drivers.

Alright, sounds good to me.

So let's keep the staging fbdev drivers there until we have replacements.

 Tomi

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