Frame buffer and plane difference

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Anand Sinha wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Thanks for the answer.so as per the definitions I understand the below > points. > a) frame buffer here signifies the scan out buffer which encompasses > complete display. originally, before planes, the frame buffer covered the com

Frame buffer and plane difference

Hi Rob, Thanks for the answer.so as per the definitions I understand the below points. a) frame buffer here signifies the scan out buffer which encompasses complete display. b)when I see the definition of plane in the doc book it says " planes are associated with a frame buffer to crop a portion o

Frame buffer and plane difference

See: http://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/drm-mode-setting.html#idp57325824 although the docbook probably should be updated (now that we have primary-planes) to read something more like: "...that provide a source of pixels to scanout to a plane" (since a plane is basically the part of displ

Frame buffer and plane difference

Hello, Can someone help me understand the basic difference between a plane and a frame buffer. Regards, Anand -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: