linux/Documentation
Thomas Zimmermann 689237ab37 fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver
From looking at the PCI IDs, every device supported by intelfb is
also supported by i915. Anyone still using intelfb should please
move on to i915, which does everything intelfb does but better.

Removing intelfb is motivated by the driver's excessive use of the
global screen_info state. The state belongs to architecture and
firmware code; device drivers should not attempt to access it. But
fixing intelfb would require a significant change in the driver's
probing logic. As intelfb has been obsolete for nearly 2 decades,
it is probably not worth the effort. Let's just remove it. Also
remove the related documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@libmpq.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2024-01-12 12:38:37 +01:00
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ABI This update includes the following changes: 2024-01-10 12:23:43 -08:00
accel
accounting
admin-guide platform-drivers-x86 for v6.8-1 2024-01-09 17:07:12 -08:00
arch x86/cleanups changes for v6.8: 2024-01-08 17:23:32 -08:00
block The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around, but 2023-11-01 17:11:41 -10:00
bpf bpf: Add __bpf_kfunc_{start,end}_defs macros 2023-11-01 22:33:53 -07:00
cdrom
core-api Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
cpu-freq
crypto crypto: octeontx2 - add devlink option to set t106 mode 2023-12-29 11:25:38 +08:00
dev-tools kunit: Add APIs for managing devices 2023-12-18 13:28:08 -07:00
devicetree This update includes the following changes: 2024-01-10 12:23:43 -08:00
doc-guide docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs' 2023-10-22 20:38:55 -06:00
driver-api asm-generic cleanups for 6.8 2024-01-10 18:13:44 -08:00
fault-injection
fb fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver 2024-01-12 12:38:37 +01:00
features
filesystems overlayfs updates for 6.8 2024-01-10 10:48:22 -08:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide
fpga
gpu Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2023-10-27' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next 2023-10-31 10:47:50 +10:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (aquacomputer_d5next) Add support for Aquacomputer High Flow USB and MPS Flow 2023-10-29 22:22:48 -07:00
i2c Documentation/i2c: fix spelling error in i2c-address-translators 2023-12-27 20:05:44 +01:00
iio
images
infiniband
input
isdn
kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object after it's unlocked 2024-01-08 09:55:31 +01:00
maintainer Documentation: xfs: consolidate XFS docs into its own subdirectory 2023-12-07 14:49:13 +05:30
mhi
misc-devices
mm mm/rmap: rename COMPOUND_MAPPED to ENTIRELY_MAPPED 2023-12-29 11:58:56 -08:00
netlabel
netlink netlink: specs: devlink: add forgotten port function caps enum values 2023-11-01 22:13:43 -07:00
networking Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
nvdimm
nvme
PCI
pcmcia
peci
power Documentation: PM: Adjust freezing-of-tasks.rst to the freezer changes 2023-12-19 21:14:32 +01:00
process docs: netdev: try to guide people on dealing with silence 2023-11-21 14:35:43 -08:00
RAS Documentation: Begin a RAS section 2023-12-06 21:07:52 +01:00
RCU Merge branches 'rcu/torture', 'rcu/fixes', 'rcu/docs', 'rcu/refscale', 'rcu/tasks' and 'rcu/stall' into rcu/next 2023-10-23 15:24:11 +02:00
rust Rust changes for v6.7 2023-10-30 20:30:49 -10:00
scheduler sched/fair: Remove SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST_FASTUP, true) 2023-12-23 15:59:56 +01:00
scsi
security
sound Linux 6.6-rc7 2023-10-23 19:38:22 +01:00
sphinx
sphinx-static
spi spi: pxa2xx: Update DMA mapping and using logic in the documentation 2023-12-08 17:50:00 +00:00
staging
target
timers
tools
trace Documentation: coresight: fix make refcheckdocs warning 2023-11-16 09:52:39 +00:00
translations Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
usb USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 16:00:42 -10:00
userspace-api fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver 2024-01-12 12:38:37 +01:00
virt KVM/arm64 updates for 6.7 2023-10-31 16:37:07 -04:00
w1
watchdog
wmi
.gitignore
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
Changes
CodingStyle
conf.py
docutils.conf
dontdiff
index.rst Documentation: Begin a RAS section 2023-12-06 21:07:52 +01:00
Kconfig
Makefile
memory-barriers.txt
SubmittingPatches
subsystem-apis.rst