On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Am 26.01.22 um 14:32 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:41:41PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Am 26.01.22 um 11:59 schrieb Helge Deller:
It's always for the same reason: the hw is old and devs have moved on.
It's pity to have a working system with an old hardware that no one in the kernel community gives a shit about because simply they are not in the same boat. Try to be on the people's position...
Yes, I do care about old hardware. I made helpers for converting fbdev drivers to DRM. I even made the initial commits for those drivers where I could find the HW on Ebay. [1] I made sure that every single of them at least gets fbcon onto the screen. So interested devs could start immediately.
Thanks for doing that, I at least appreciate it.
Yet, no one ever showed up to convert even a single driver.
I have helper in a limited way to test / enable drivers on some platforms where it wasn't possible before (you can easily see what I have done by running `git log --oneline --author="Andy Shevchenko" -- drivers/video drivers/gpu/drm drivers/staging/fbtft`), but DRM is completely new subsystem to me if we talk about driver conversion or so.