[RFC] staging: fbtft: Moving fb_ili9341 (and others) to DRM

[Nam Cao]

Daniel Matyas <matyasdaniel006 at gmail.com> writes:
> Questions:
>  a) Is removing fb_ili9341 acceptable, pointing users of other ILI9341
>     modules to panel-mipi-dbi? The KD233 node would then have no driver.
>  b) Or should KD233 panel support go into a DRM driver first? I don't have
>     its init sequence or physical size, or the board...
>  c) Is removal of all of fbtft already planned?
>  d) Several other fbtft drivers have drm counterparts. Should I inspect those
>  to see if removal is needed?

IIRC the main reason fbtft needs to stay is because it supports parallel
interface which is missing in the DRM drivers.

Nam