Drivers have not seen any love for years. Be that fixes or improvements, or cosmetics like introducing symbolic names, style and code-flow polish.
Seemingly the maintainer has also disappeared years ago :-\ Considering nouveau supports all that hardware (modulo nv03) just mark these as obsolete/broken, referring to nouveau in the help text. v2 (Bartlomiej): - split config changes into separate patch - spell out nouveau DRM driver - don't use BROKEN - add runtime warning Cc: Antonino Daplas <[email protected]> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> (v1) --- MAINTAINERS | 3 +-- drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 4 ++++ drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c | 3 +++ drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 938316092634..c9498dd15e4a 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -12055,9 +12055,8 @@ F: include/linux/nubus.h F: include/uapi/linux/nubus.h NVIDIA (rivafb and nvidiafb) FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER -M: Antonino Daplas <[email protected]> L: [email protected] -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete F: drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/ F: drivers/video/fbdev/riva/ diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig index fa88e8b9a83d..ccddd06ab430 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig @@ -881,6 +881,8 @@ config FB_NVIDIA select BITREVERSE select VGASTATE help + Obsolete, use the nouveau DRM driver instead. + This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia chips, TNT and newer. For very old chipsets, such as the RIVA128, then use the rivafb. @@ -928,6 +930,8 @@ config FB_RIVA select BITREVERSE select VGASTATE help + Obsolete, use the nouveau DRM driver instead. + This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia Riva/Geforce chips. Say Y if you have such a graphics board. diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c index c24de9107958..a958612ef75b 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c @@ -1512,6 +1512,9 @@ static struct pci_driver nvidiafb_driver = { static int nvidiafb_init(void) { + pr_warn("Legacy nvidiafb framebuffer driver will be removed in 2022\n" + "Please switch to nouveau DRM driver\n"); + #ifndef MODULE char *option = NULL; diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c index 764ec3285e62..c2788e22f5c1 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/riva/fbdev.c @@ -2160,6 +2160,9 @@ static struct pci_driver rivafb_driver = { static int rivafb_init(void) { + pr_warn("Legacy rivafb framebuffer driver will be removed in 2022\n" + "Please switch to nouveau DRM driver\n"); + #ifndef MODULE char *option = NULL; -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
