Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Wed Apr 24 2013 - 17:02:19 EST


Hi Prabhakar,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote:
> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas
> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists
> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and
> 2 video planes.
> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/
> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf
>
> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is
> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the
> fbdev interface.
>
> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each
> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3.

The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-)

> Lad, Prabhakar (6):
> media: davinci: vpbe: fix checkpatch warning for CamelCase
> media: davinci: vpbe: enable vpbe for fbdev addition
> davinci: vpbe: add fbdev driver
> ARM: davinci: dm355: enable fbdev driver
> ARM: davinci: dm365: enable fbdev driver
> ARM: davinci: dm644x: enable fbdev driver
>
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm355.c | 24 +-
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm365.c | 10 +
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm644x.c | 10 +
> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe_display.c | 8 +-
> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe_osd.c | 820 ++++++++-
> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe_venc.c | 43 +
> drivers/video/Kconfig | 12 +
> drivers/video/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/video/davincifb.c | 2523 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/video/davincifb.h | 194 ++
> include/media/davinci/vpbe_osd.h | 66 +-
> include/media/davinci/vpbe_venc.h | 21 +
> 12 files changed, 3702 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/video/davincifb.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/video/davincifb.h

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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