[PATCH v5 0/7] drm: add simpledrm driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 02:27:33PM +0200, Mads Lønsethagen wrote:
> > Hey
> > 
> > On request of Noralf, I picked up the patches and prepared v5. Works
> > fine with
> > Xorg, if configured according to:
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-January/052777.html
> > If anyone knows how to make Xorg pick it up dynamically without such a
> > static
> > configuration, please let me know.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > David
> > 
> > David Herrmann (7):
> >   x86/sysfb: add support for 64bit EFI lfb_base
> >   x86/sysfb: fix lfb_size calculation
> >   of/platform: expose of_platform_device_destroy()
> >   video: add generic framebuffer eviction
> >   drm: switch to sysfb_evict_conflicts()
> >   drm: add SimpleDRM driver
> >   drm/simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support
> > ...
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I asked Noralf about this patch set recently, and he mentioned that this
> never made it any further than this patch series...
> 
> Are there still any interest in getting this mainlined? Does the code exist
> in any repo anywhere? For my own part, this would be an awesome driver to
> have to resurrect some old hardware I have lying around...

I think no objections against merging this from upstream pov, and David
hopefully still has a git branch somewhere. Even better if you could get a
distro on board to use this instead of efifb of offb.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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