From: Daniel Vetter Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:38:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: drm/doc: Capture TODO for deferred fbdev setup X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e8be453a41125a4060df9a7371a72239f8fe462;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git drm/doc: Capture TODO for deferred fbdev setup Also became a bit a FAQ recently. Cc: John Stultz Acked-by: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170226193851.3245-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch --- diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 2760872621af..ce0f1a588e7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ helpers. Contact: Ville Syrjälä, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers +Implement deferred fbdev setup in the helper +-------------------------------------------- + +Many (especially embedded drivers) want to delay fbdev setup until there's a +real screen plugged in. This is to avoid the dreaded fallback to the low-res +fbdev default. Many drivers have a hacked-up (and often broken) version of this, +better to do it once in the shared helpers. Thierry has a patch series, but that +one needs to be rebased and final polish applied. + +Contact: Thierry Reding, Daniel Vetter, driver maintainers + Convert early atomic drivers to async commit helpers ----------------------------------------------------