[RFC] Getting OpenChrome DRM mainlined into Linux kernel tree

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Sean,

I do recall seeing you at XDC2017, I do not believe I spoke with you at the event.
I will not name the name, but I had one developer who strongly asked me to convert to atomic mode setting, but I refused due to the state of the code at the time.
Now, the KMS device support is mostly comparable to the existing UMS code path, so I can soon consider implementing universal plane and atomic mode setting.
I am okay with the OpenChrome DRM not being activated initially (i.e., Displaying "(Experimental)" status when running menuconfig), but I do want it directly inserted into the DRM tree from day one after the code is pulled in. (i.e., not getting inserted into the "staging" tree)
I believe the current code quality is good enough for this arrangement.

Regards,

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 1:07 PM
> From: "Sean Paul" <seanpaul at chromium.org>
> To: kevinbrace at gmx.com
> Cc: "Dave Airlie" <airlied at gmail.com>, dri-devel <dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>, openchrome-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC] Getting OpenChrome DRM mainlined into Linux kernel tree
>
> I think I was one of those developers asking you to switch to atomic
> (iirc, i encouraged you to start working on kms instead of ums). I
> know this is a personal project that you've been working on in your
> spare time (which is awesome!), so while I still encourage you to
> convert the driver, I don't have a problem with you doing the
> conversion in mainline. I think hiding under staging until the
> conversion is complete is a pretty reasonable compromise.
> 
> Sean
>