Samsung SoCs framebuffer re-work

[Ben Dooks]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:09:25PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:59:29AM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> >> Hi Ben,
> >>
> >> Currently there's only one fb drivers for samsung SocS. but it's based
> >> on s3c24xx and a part of s3c64xx.
> >
> > Your statement is incorrect, we have the s3c2410-fb driver which deals
> > with the 2410/2440/2412 style hardware and s3c-fb which is for the newer
> > devices.
> 
> Yes it's working on s5pc110. I mean it's not fit the platform requirement.

?
 
> >
> >> As you can see the s5pc110 (aka s5pv210) spec, It has more features
> >> and interconnection between FIMC and FIMD.
> >> So current fb driver can't handle these features well. So LSI make a
> >> own fb drivers and use it. You can see the code at their git repo.
> >>
> >> Now we are re-implement or change it for s5pc110 and for future usages.
> >> How do you think?
> >
> > I've already got updates for s3c-fb to work on 2416,2443 and the c110/v210
> > systems. I am talking with the relevant people at System.LSI to get our
> > drivers closers together, possibly we can get this done for the current
> > merge window.
> 
> You mean you want to use the current fb drivers for s5pc110 also?
> Then how to do implement features mentioned by Kukjin?

Well, apart from the fact that quite a lot of them are actually features
that are in all versions of this block, we intend to create some patches
and send them to the relevant lists...

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Ben

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