[PATCH 1/4] video: fb: imxfb: Drop platform data support

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Sun Jul 24 09:40:22 UTC 2022


Hi Uwe,

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:02:18AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 07:57:17PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > No source file but the driver itself includes the header containing the
> > > platform data definition. The last user is gone since commit
> > > 8485adf17a15 ("ARM: imx: Remove imx device directory").
> > > 
> > > So we can safely drop platform data support.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > 
> > Do imxfb offer something that is not supported by the DRM drivers?
> > If yes then the clean-up is good, if not then we could drop the driver?
> 
> It's for different i.MX variants. imxfb is for i.MX2x while the DRM
> drivers in mainline are for i.MX6. (Not sure about the i.MX3 and i.MX5x
> variants.)
> 
> Somewhere in the middle of my todo list is to mainline an i.MX2x DRM
> driver that could replace the imxfb driver. If I only had a bit more
> time ...

There is drm/mxsfb, where Kconfig says:
"including i.MX23, i.MX28, i.MX6SX, i.MX7 and i.MX8M".

So there is already something but if this is a 1:1 replacement I dunno.

	Sam


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