Hi On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote: > So what you are saying is that the only reason it is needed is because some > distros choose to build DRM drivers as modules. So as soon as they stop doing > that the problem goes away, right? > Worse, the experience I have with ARM DRM drivers is that they fail horrible > when being built as modules, but that's a different problem.
Exactly. But there's no intention to stop building them as modules. Imagine you build a kernel that's supposed to run on multiple different platforms (like x86), you really don't want all DRM drivers built-in. Instead, you load the correct driver during boot-up. To still provide early graphics access, we use simplefb. Note that there might be legitimate reasons to make DRM drivers built-in. But at least general purpose distros avoid that. Thanks David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
