[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Mainline kernel on a cellphone

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Jul 29 06:43:50 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Tim Bird <tim.bird at sonymobile.com> wrote:
> There is now a wiki page at:
> See http://elinux.org/Kernel_areas_of_focus_for_mainlining
> In particular it has a table showing certain areas that tend to have
> a lot of out-of-tree code (e.g. most phones have between 80K to
> 100K of lines of wireless driver support out-of-mainline)

Quick question on your table: Is "Video" drivers/video i.e. all the
legacy fbdev horror-show? If so you probably want to rename that to
"GPU (legacy)" or similar since for upstream all that stuff really
should end up as a drm gpu driver. Especially now that atomic
modesetting is merged.
-Daniel
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