Re: [PATCH 00/18] OMAP: DSS2: Intro

[Koen Kooi]

Op 31 aug 2009, om 11:23 heeft Artem Bityutskiy het volgende geschreven:

> On 08/28/2009 03:25 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > This patch set implement new display subsystem driver (DSS2) and  
> > omapfb driver
> > for OMAP2/3. The patches have been reviewed on linux-omap and linux- 
> > fbdev-devel
> > mailing lists. The patches can also be found from
> > http://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux
> >
> > The patches include DSS documentation patch that includes more  
> > instructions for
> > module parameters, sysfs files etc.
> >
> > The patches enable DSS2 for OMAP3430 SDP board. DSS2 is used in  
> > various boards,
> > for example Nokia N900, Beagle Board and Overo.
> >
> > I don't currently have any OMAP2 board to test DSS2, but it has  
> > worked on OMAP2
> > and the possible fixes needed should be minimal.
> >
> > OMAP1 is not supported, and so the old DSS needs to be used on  
> > OMAP1 boards.
> >
> > DSS2 is partly based on the old omapfb driver by Imre Deak, and  
> > Imre has also
> > contributed to DSS2 quite a bit. Ville Syrjälä has been  
> > contributing to scaling
> > and tv-out work. Also some contributions have been made by Hardik  
> > Shah, Vaibhav
> > Hiremath, and perhaps some others that I have forgotten =).
>
> Tony, Andrew,
>
> how could we merge this code (unless there are requests to change  
> something, which
> does not seem to be the case.). It seems like there is no maintainer  
> who could
> merge this. Or there is? Would Tomi need to send a direct pull  
> request to Linus,
> or this could got via Tony?
>
> We are using DSS2 in Nokia for about a year already. N900 is using  
> this
> code, for example. Other (non-Nokia) projects are using DSS2 as well.
> The code was public for long time and was sent several times for  
> review.

With my beagleboard hat on: I agree with Artem, let's get this merged.  
I hope other TI folk can put their TI hat on and say something nice  
about dss2 as well :)

regards,

Koen

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