On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 20:25, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:19:43 +0000
> timofonic timofonic <timofonic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So if KMS is so cool and provides many advantages over fbdev and
>> such... Why isn't more widely used intead of still relying on fbdev?
>> Why still using fbdev emulation (that is partial and somewhat broken,
>> it seems) instead using KMS directly?
>
> Used by what? ÂAll three major GPU device classes have KMS support
> (Intel, ATI, and nVidia). ÂIf you want it for a particular device, you
> can always port it over.
The three major GPU device classes on PC...
> As for fbdev emulation, what's still using it? ÂThere's nothing
> stopping projects from converting over; X and Wayland can already
> handle KMS APIs just fine.
Can Wayland handle fbdev APIs ...
>> I know the graphic driver situation is quite bad on Linux, especially
>> on the embedded world. Fbdev seems is still quite used there by binary
>> blob drivers.
>
> Probably for a couple of reasons:
> Â1) inertia: fbdev has been around a lot longer, and provides most of
> Âwhat embedded devices need anyway
> Â2) feature set: why bother doing a full KMS driver if you're not
> Âgoing to use any of the additional features it would provide (output
> Âmanagement, memory management, execution management)
... if no additional features of KMS are needed?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
            Geert
--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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