On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM Patrik Jakobsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > ping for a review
>
> Hi Thomas,
> Sorry, I'm very busy at the moment. I hope to get to this some time
> during this week.

Looks good. For the entire series:
Acked-by: Patrik Jakobsson <[email protected]>

Please push this to drm-misc-next

Thanks!

>
> -Patrik
>
> >
> > Am 06.02.26 um 14:21 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
> > > A client buffer holds the DRM framebuffer for an in-kernel DRM
> > > client. So far, gma500 has created an internal ad-hoc framebuffer
> > > for its fbdev emulation, while by-passing the regular interfaces
> > > used by user-space compositors.
> > >
> > > Replacing the existing code with a client buffer allows for stream-
> > > lining gma500 code and later also the fbdev helpers. The new framebuffer
> > > will be registered against the client's file and will support handles
> > > for GEM objects. This is then just another framebuffer within the DRM
> > > ecosystem.
> > >
> > > As there's still a custom GEM buffer object involved, patch 1 exports
> > > an interface to create a client buffer around it.
> > >
> > > Patches 2 and 3 update size calculation in gma500's fbdev emulation and
> > > makes it use the helpers provided by DRM.
> > >
> > > Patch 4 converts the code to client buffers and patch 5 removes the
> > > now-unused framebuffer code.
> > >
> > > Tested on an Atom N2800 Cedarview system.
> > >
> > > Thomas Zimmermann (5):
> > >    drm/client: Export drm_client_buffer_create()
> > >    drm/gma500: fbdev: Set framebuffer size to GEM object size
> > >    drm/gma500: fbdev: Calculate buffer geometry with format helpers
> > >    drm/gma500: fbdev: Use a DRM client buffer
> > >    drm/gma500: Create framebuffers with drm_gem_fb_create()
> > >
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client.c         |   3 +-
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/fbdev.c       | 101 +++++++++++++-------------
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/framebuffer.c | 104 +++------------------------
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.h     |   6 --
> > >   include/drm/drm_client.h             |   3 +
> > >   5 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Thomas Zimmermann
> > Graphics Driver Developer
> > SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> > Frankenstr. 146, 90461 Nürnberg, Germany, www.suse.com
> > GF: Jochen Jaser, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich, (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
> >
> >

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