[PATCH v3 00/19] arch: Consolidate <asm/fb.h>

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Apr 18 00:44:59 PDT 2023


Hi

Am 17.04.23 um 16:12 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023, at 14:56, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Various architectures provide <asm/fb.h> with helpers for fbdev
>> framebuffer devices. Share the contained code where possible. There
>> is already <asm-generic/fb.h>, which implements generic (as in
>> 'empty') functions of the fbdev helpers. The header was added in
>> commit aafe4dbed0bf ("asm-generic: add generic versions of common
>> headers"), but never used.
>>
>> Each per-architecture header file declares and/or implements fbdev
>> helpers and defines a preprocessor token for each. The generic
>> header then provides the remaining helpers. It works like the I/O
>> helpers in <asm/io.h>.
> 
> Looks all good to me,
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Thanks a lot. I know that Helge wants to test the PARISC changes, so 
I'll keep this series pending for a bit longer. I'd like to merge the 
patches through the DRM tree, if no one objects.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
>       Arnd

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Thomas Zimmermann
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