linux-toradex.git/drivers/video/fbdev/platinumfb.c, branch v4.4.73 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules powerpc: Move Power Macintosh drivers to generic byteswappers 2015-03-23T03:29:40+00:00 David Gibson david@gibson.dropbear.id.au 2015-02-03T05:36:21+00:00 f5718726714cd6114876c4e3ca9b6992ab81176c ppc has special instruction forms to efficiently load and store values in non-native endianness. These can be accessed via the arch-specific {ld,st}_le{16,32}() inlines in arch/powerpc/include/asm/swab.h. However, gcc is perfectly capable of generating the byte-reversing load/store instructions when using the normal, generic cpu_to_le*() and le*_to_cpu() functions eaning the arch-specific functions don't have much point. Worse the "le" in the names of the arch specific functions is now misleading, because they always generate byte-reversing forms, but some ppc machines can now run a little-endian kernel. To start getting rid of the arch-specific forms, this patch removes them from all the old Power Macintosh drivers, replacing them with the generic byteswappers. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> 
ppc has special instruction forms to efficiently load and store values
in non-native endianness.  These can be accessed via the arch-specific
{ld,st}_le{16,32}() inlines in arch/powerpc/include/asm/swab.h.

However, gcc is perfectly capable of generating the byte-reversing
load/store instructions when using the normal, generic cpu_to_le*() and
le*_to_cpu() functions eaning the arch-specific functions don't have much
point.

Worse the "le" in the names of the arch specific functions is now
misleading, because they always generate byte-reversing forms, but some
ppc machines can now run a little-endian kernel.

To start getting rid of the arch-specific forms, this patch removes them
from all the old Power Macintosh drivers, replacing them with the
generic byteswappers.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
video: fbdev: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers 2014-10-20T14:21:51+00:00 Wolfram Sang wsa@the-dreams.de 2014-10-20T14:21:51+00:00 6a732becfd2fe1525718de8eb5c17314265a15f2 A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> 
A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
video: move fbdev to drivers/video/fbdev 2014-04-17T05:10:19+00:00 Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com 2014-02-13T13:31:38+00:00 f7018c21350204c4cf628462f229d44d03545254 The drivers/video directory is a mess. It contains generic video related files, directories for backlight, console, linux logo, lots of fbdev device drivers, fbdev framework files. Make some order into the chaos by creating drivers/video/fbdev directory, and move all fbdev related files there. No functionality is changed, although I guess it is possible that some subtle Makefile build order related issue could be created by this patch. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 
The drivers/video directory is a mess. It contains generic video related
files, directories for backlight, console, linux logo, lots of fbdev
device drivers, fbdev framework files.

Make some order into the chaos by creating drivers/video/fbdev
directory, and move all fbdev related files there.

No functionality is changed, although I guess it is possible that some
subtle Makefile build order related issue could be created by this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>