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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-02-26 20:38:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-02-28 13:07:23 +0100 |
| commit | 4e8be453a41125a4060df9a7371a72239f8fe462 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d869bccbd6ad7998d3228afcebe84a0b520ba47 /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | drm/docs: Record TODO about plane clipping (diff) | |
| download | linux-4e8be453a41125a4060df9a7371a72239f8fe462.tar.xz linux-4e8be453a41125a4060df9a7371a72239f8fe462.zip | |
drm/doc: Capture TODO for deferred fbdev setup
Also became a bit a FAQ recently.
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170226193851.3245-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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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 ---------------------------------------------------- |