And what about the framebuffer driver from Via Arena? Recently a new driver was released (last week or so, I can not check because the site is down now), so it seems that this driver is still very well maintained. What are the differences between the Via Arena driver and the one in the DirectFB tree? Is it possible to use the VIA Arena driver with DirectFB?
José Gonçalves Nicolas Huillard wrote: > David Boucher a écrit : > >>Does anyone know if there are any plans to submit the DirectFB VIA >>framebuffer driver for inclusion in the Linux kernel? >> >>I was writing a version myself myself with that goal in mind, but since >>I started, a lot of effort has been put into the DirectFB version, which >>makes mine mostly redundant (it is way behind in terms of hardware >>support and features). > > > I think the primary goal of the viafb/directfb driver is good hardware > support for directfb usage. As you already noticed, viafb is mainly used > by directfb applications, and many developers add a few things to this > driver there. > > >>If the DirectFB viafb developers are aiming to get their version into >>the official kernel tree then I will probably abandon mine as it would >>simply be a duplication of effort. > > > The primary goal is not inclusion into the kernel, but any effort is > welcome. If you can get this driver into the kernel tree, I don't think > anybody could blame you ;-) > > >>Any developers willing to comment? > > > As I'm not a developer, my comments may not reflect their point of view... > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
