On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:01 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:27 AM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers > > > > == Summary == > > > > This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) > > drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm > > driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer. > > > > I'd like to see this coupled with the addition of a flag so we can > change "basic graphics mode" to force this. There's already a proposed > patch series upstream for this[1], so I think this isn't too hard to > achieve. >
Agreed. I've set up a COPR that has a kernel build with the needed config changes and the patches you mentioned. In case someone wants to give a try to this: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/javierm/simpledrm/ > This would unblock closing the remaining gaps on the X11->Wayland > transition, since Mutter doesn't support fbdev for Wayland, and KWin's > Wayland session doesn't work with fbdev on our kernel for some reason. > Indeed, I think that using simpledrm would be an improvement over efifb. Best regards, Javier _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
