Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH v2] viafb: 2D engine rewrite (and viafb patches in general)

[Jonathan C. <co...@lw...>]

> Do you have a pointer to the OLPC tree?

git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6

They are working in the olpc-2.6.30 branch, currently.

> I'd really like to see VX855/OLPC support in mainline as soon as 
> possible as I consider it a good thing to support "new" hardware early. 
> However even if I am capable to write such support based on Haralds work 
> I don't want to see it in mainline as long as no one with that hardware 
> tested it.

I do have the hardware, and I've taken on the responsibility for making
pieces of it work.  In my mind, that includes being responsible for
mainlining things too.  I will start to work in that direction; 2.6.33
should be a reasonable target for the bulk of it.

My thinking, FWIW, is to turn the viafb code into something more like a
regular multi-function device driver.  I've already integrated Harald's i2c
stuff with the OLPC code; I need to add proper GPIO support next.  Then
there will be the V4L2 chunk for the video capture engine.  Along the way,
I may try to introduce some foreign concepts like locking.

I have a tree on git.lwn.net now, but it's against the 2.6.30 base.  I will
try to bring things forward to a more current tree sometime soon and put it
up as, at least, a place where we can see the various lines of development
going on.

Sound good?

jon