[PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> >
> > Since we got a maintainer for fbdev, I would like to
> > unorphan fbtft (with the idea of sending PRs to Helge)
> > and move it out of staging since there is no more clean
> > up work expected and no more drivers either.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Here's a driver I have been working on:
> 
> drm/panel: Add MIPI DBI compatible SPI driver
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220125175700.37408-1-noralf@tronnes.org/
> 
> It should replace the SPI part of these fbtft drivers if accepted:

This is good news, but...

> $ grep -lr MIPI_DCS drivers/staging/fbtft/ | grep -v "-" | uniq | sort

Hint:

	git grep -lw MIPI_DCS -- drivers/staging/fbtft

> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8340bn.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8353d.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_hx8357d.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9163.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9340.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9341.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9481.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ili9486.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_s6d02a1.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_st7735r.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_st7789v.c
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c
> 
> There's no support for the parallel interface on these controllers in
> drm. Support could be added to drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dbi.c.

...as I said and you confirmed that parallel interface support is missing.

> Here's a status report I wrote 2 years ago:
> 
> fbtft: 5 years in staging
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/a6cef26c-0f4b-47f0-d249-71f53891526b@tronnes.org/

Thanks for sharing!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko