Hi Tom, On Tuesday 09 April 2013 12:21:08 Tom Cooksey wrote: > Hi All, > > Last year Laurent posted an RFC patch[i] to add support for exporting an > fbdev framebuffer through dma_buf. Looking through the mailing list > archives, it doesn't appear to have progressed beyond an RFC? What would be > needed to get this merged? It would be useful for our Mali T6xx driver > (which supports importing dma_buf buffers) to allow the GPU to draw > directly into the framebuffer on platforms which lack a DRM/KMS driver.
The patch was pretty simple, I don't think it would take lots of efforts to get it to mainline. On the other hand, fbdev is a dying API, so I'm not sure how much energy we want to spend on upgrading it. I suppose all that would be needed is a developer with enough interest in the topic to fix the patch according to the comments. > [i] Subject: "[RFC/PATCH] fb: Add dma-buf support", sent 20/06/2012. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
