On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 13:48, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie@samsung.com wrote:
On 5/18/20 1:19 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
Hi Michael,
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 08:30, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:
Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com writes:
As mentioned in earlier commit, the riva and nvidia fbdev drivers have seen no love over the years, are short on features and overall below par
Users are encouraged to switch to the nouveau drm driver instead.
v2: Split configs to separate patch, enable nouveau (Bartlomiej)
Cc: Antonino Daplas adaplas@gmail.com Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie@samsung.com Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: Paul Mackerras paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com Acked-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch (v1)
Hi all unless, there are objections I would prefer to merge this via the drm tree.
Have you tested that the resulting kernels work on the relevant hardware?
Sadly, no I haven't. I'm updating the defconfigs as requested by the fbdev maintainer.
I've just noticed that v1 (patch #1/1) & v2 (patch #1/2) lack Cc: to powerpc Maintainers so they cannot see the context of changes in this patch.
Haven't see any instances of fbdev/drm patches being Cc to arch/ developers. As such I made sure the commit message illustrates 1/2 as clearly as possible.
Also you've proposed v1 yourself and it has already contained modifications to defconfigs (removal of setting the config options for the old drivers) in addition to marking the old drivers as BROKEN.
It now turns out that v1 has also never been tested. :(
Please don't submit untested patches without marking them as such.
Does x86 box with nv34 GPU count as testing? I suspect not :-( It was been using nouveau ever since I bought it 15+ years ago.
Will be more careful in the future.
-Emil