[PATCH 0/5] at91: atmel_lcdfb: regression fixes and cpu_is removal

Johan Hovold jhovold at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 09:51:33 EST 2013


On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:47:40PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:35:13PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> > These patches fix a regression in 16-bpp support for older SOCs which use
> > IBGR:555 rather than BGR:565 pixel layout. Use SOC-type to determine if the
> > controller uses the intensity-bit and restore the old layout in that case.
> > 
> > The last patch is a removal of uses of cpu_is_xxxx() macros in atmel_lcdfb with
> > a platform-device-id table and static configurations.
> > 
> > 
> > Patches from Johan Hovold taken from:
> > "[PATCH 0/3] atmel_lcdfb: fix 16-bpp regression"
> > and
> > "[PATCH v2 0/3] ARM: at91/avr32/atmel_lcdfb: remove cpu_is macros"
> > patch series to form a clean patch series with my signature.
> > 
> > Arnd, Olof,
> > as it seems that old fbdev drivers are not so much reviewed those days, can we
> > take the decision to queue this material through arm-soc with other AT91
> > drivers updates?
> 
> It would be beneficial to get an ack from Florian. Was he involved in the
> review of the code that regressed 16-bpp support in the first place? When was
> the regression introduced?

Thought I'd send a reminder about these fixes. Has anyone picked them up
for 3.9-rc?

Thanks,
Johan



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