Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/pl111: Initial drm/kms driver for pl111

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 04:19:40 EST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:54:53PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> Hm, I certainly want it... but it would be unreasonable of me to expect
>> Eric to cold-code a big upfront design for systems he can't even test
>> this on.
>>
>> What I would request would rather be: please do not put in any
>> immediate roadblocks and keep it in the back of your head that I will
>> maybe come in and add support for the PL110 systems once this
>> works. (Of course that would be with the aim to deprecate and
>> delete the old fbdev driver in favor of this one.)
>
> I'm only suggesting that it doesn't match the PL110 hardware as long as
> it doesn't support the PL110...

Of course. Let's proceed like this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij