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Marek Szyprowski 8ded59413c drm/exynos: ipp: Remove Exynos DRM IPP subsystem
Exynos DRM IPP subsystem is in fact non-functional and frankly speaking
dead-code. This patch clearly marks that Exynos DRM IPP subsystem is
broken and never really functional. It will be replaced by a completely
rewritten API.

Exynos DRM IPP user-space API can be obsoleted for the following
reasons:

1. Exynos DRM IPP user-space API can be optional in Exynos DRM, so
userspace should not rely that it is always available and should have
a software fallback in case it is not there.

2. The only mode which was initially semi-working was memory-to-memory
image processing. The remaining modes (LCD-"writeback" and "output")
were never operational due to missing code (both in mainline and even
vendor kernels).

3. Exynos DRM IPP mainline user-space API compatibility for
memory-to-memory got broken very early by commit 083500baef ("drm:
remove DRM_FORMAT_NV12MT", which removed the support for tiled formats,
the main feature which made this API somehow useful on Exynos platforms
(video codec that time produced only tiled frames, to implement xvideo
or any other video overlay, one has to de-tile them for proper
display).

4. Broken drivers. Especially once support for IOMMU has been added,
it revealed that drivers don't configure DMA operations properly and in
many cases operate outside the provided buffers trashing memory around.

5. Need for external patches. Although IPP user-space API has been used
in some vendor kernels, but in such cases there were additional patches
applied (like reverting mentioned 083500baef patch) what means that
those userspace apps which might use it, still won't work with the
mainline kernel version.

We don't have time machines, so we cannot change it, but Exynos DRM IPP
extension should never have been merged to mainline in that form.

Exynos IPP subsystem and user-space API will be rewritten, so remove
current IPP core code and mark existing drivers as BROKEN.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
2018-01-02 08:41:22 +09:00
arch - Allow internal page allocation to fail (Chris) 2017-12-28 05:20:31 +10:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-11 16:32:45 -08:00
Documentation drm-misc-next for 4.16: 2017-12-22 10:00:38 +10:00
drivers drm/exynos: ipp: Remove Exynos DRM IPP subsystem 2018-01-02 08:41:22 +09:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Revert "exec: avoid RLIMIT_STACK races with prlimit()" 2017-12-17 14:26:25 -08:00
include drm/exynos: ipp: Remove Exynos DRM IPP subsystem 2018-01-02 08:41:22 +09:00
init main: kernel_start: move housekeeping_init() before workqueue_init_early() 2017-11-27 08:56:57 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-17 13:48:50 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-15 11:44:59 -08:00
mm Revert "mm: replace p??_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths" 2017-12-15 18:53:22 -08:00
net NFS client fixes for Linux 4.15-rc4 2017-12-16 13:12:53 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-15 11:44:59 -08:00
security KEYS: reject NULL restriction string when type is specified 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
sound sound fixes for 4.15-rc3 2017-12-06 10:49:14 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-15 13:08:37 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: fix APIC page invalidation 2017-12-06 16:10:34 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'drm-next-4.16' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2017-12-21 11:17:45 +10:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc4 2017-12-17 18:59:59 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.