[PATCH 2/2] staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Jan 15 10:27:55 UTC 2019


Although given the lack of progress since 2010, maybe time to ditch it
from staging outright?

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard at rtp-net.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
index 7eb99140a399..a1e25957bf1b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ TODO:
 - remove useless/wrong/unused code...
 - get rid of non-linux related stuff
 
+This needs to become a drm driver, the fbdev subsystem doesn't take new drivers
+anymore.
+
 Please send patches to:
 Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard at rtp-net.org>
-- 
2.20.1



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