[PATCH v1 1/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:26:36PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:17:08PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> > On 1/26/22 11:31, Daniel Vetter wrote:

...

> > You are describing a transitioning over to DRM - which is Ok.
> > But on that way there is no need to ignore, deny or even kill usage scenarios
> > which are different compared to your usage scenarios (e.g. embedded devices,
> > old platforms, slow devices, slow busses, no 3D hardware features,
> > low-color devices, ...).
> 
> All of those should be handled by the drm layer, as Daniel keeps
> pointing out.  If not, then the tinydrm layer needs to be enhanced to do
> so.
> 
> Anyone have a pointer to hardware I can buy that is one of these fbtft
> drivers that I could do a port to drm to see just how much work is
> really needed here?

I have bought myself (for other purposes, I mean not to convert the driver(s))
SSD1306 based display (SPI), SSD1331 (SPI), HX88347d (parallel).

Each of them costed less than $10 with delivery to EU (nowadays maybe a bit
more expensive). I believe it's very easy to find the links on AliExpress.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko