[PATCH/RFC] drm: Remove unused Renesas SH Mobile DRM driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:35 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:22:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Since its incarnation in v3.7 almost 7 years ago, no users of the SH
> > > Mobile DRM driver have appeared.
> > >
> > > Hence remove the driver.  It can be resurrected from git history,
> > > if/when needed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> >
> > I'd prefer removing the fbdev variant tbh ...
> 
> I understand ;-)
> 
> But sh_mobile_lcdc_fb is used on 5 legacy SuperH platforms, and 1 ARM
> platform. At least the latter is working fine.
> 
> > Not sure why exactly the switch never happened.
> 
> Me neither.  I^HGoogle can't even find posted patches of board integration.
> 
> Note that both drivers lack DT support, which would be very desirable on
> ARM, as graphics is the single remaining working driver on the Atmark
> Techno Armadillo 800 EVA board not using DT.

Ah I wondered why the drm driver isn't just automatically picked up in
today's neat world of DT (if you enable it in .config instead of the fbdev
one). It's not even using DT yet :-/
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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