I.MX6 HDMI support in v4.2

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Sep 8 08:55:34 PDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:17:06AM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
> >> I
> >> suspect that the iMX6 is going to be obsolete before we have a decent
> >> working video playback story on this hardware.
> >>
> > MX6Plus is just around the corner and will probably keep us busy for a
> > while. ;)
> 
> Lucas,
> 
> In which case, it "might" be a good idea to get the current version of
> etnaviv in mainline for current imx6's before you guys disappear again
> for mx6plus development..
> 
> As you guys are basically repeating what happened with the limadriver:
> http://limadriver.org/
> 
> Remember, there is an etnaviv community.
> 
> Russell:
> is there any reason to not just push your version for mainline and let
> Pengutronix submit patches.

The basic problem is getting the kernel<->user API stable before it
goes into mainline, which is an absolute must.  We can't drop it into
mainline and then break the user API.

We also want to avoid putting it into the staging tree and have it
sit around there for years.

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