[PATCH 2/2] drm/doc: Capture TODO for deferred fbdev setup

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Sun Feb 26 19:38:51 UTC 2017


Also became a bit a FAQ recently.

Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 2760872621af..ce0f1a588e7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ helpers.
 
 Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
 
+Implement deferred fbdev setup in the helper
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Many (especially embedded drivers) want to delay fbdev setup until there's a
+real screen plugged in. This is to avoid the dreaded fallback to the low-res
+fbdev default. Many drivers have a hacked-up (and often broken) version of this,
+better to do it once in the shared helpers. Thierry has a patch series, but that
+one needs to be rebased and final polish applied.
+
+Contact: Thierry Reding, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers
+
 Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers
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-- 
2.11.0



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