On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Stéphane Marchesin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And >> fimd, as display controller, could be controlled by linux framebuffer or drm >> framework. >> > > I don't think it's a valid point. If the framebuffer is properly done > on top of the DRM, you don't need all of that at all.
Imo for hw with full-fledge drm kms drivers the sanest option for traditional fbdev support is to pimp the fb helpers a bit. Pretty much the only thing left that a real fbdev driver can do afaics is fb reallocation - it shouldn't be too hard to (optionally) implement this in the helpers ... -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
