On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:35 PM, ext Eric Wong wrote: > Please consider to keep linuxfb platform plugin. There are still > many devices(e.g ARM9) that have no graphics accelerations at all > and there is only single process environment.
Taking a plugin out of QtBase does not prevent it from flourishing in a playgrounds repo or even in a supported qtlinuxfb repo when a maintainer for it steps up. Right now, the reality is that many of these plugins are not being looked after and they are therefore halfway broken. > I think it makes no sense to use eglfs/opengl which use software > rendering as backend on these devices. > > I know we can use directfb or maybe wayland(there are wayland > fbdev patches floating around) but fbdev is so slim and simple. > > Most embedded system vendors do not deliver KMS driver, fbdev is still > de facto standard in low end devices at the moment. > > I am looking forward to using QT5 and QPA with linux framebuffer support. > > Thanks! > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
