Re: [Intel-gfx] linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the drm-intel tree

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 12:04:26 EST


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Now, I know you're working on getting rid of this entirely for i915, but
> > what about that MSM driver? Will we continue to need it there, is
> > anybody actually maintaining that thing?
>
> Rob Clark is, and since he's a one-man gpu driver team with other
> responsibilities it might take even longer than for i915 :(

Fair enough. For my information, how much a of copy/paste job from i915
was that? Could he, in principle, copy/paste your changes to get rid of
this back into MSM without too much effort, or have things diverged
greatly since the initial copy/paste?