On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 10:03 +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > Hi, > > Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers > should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging. > > Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be > applied. Only for review. I missed the discussion where this decision was made, I admit I am unimpressed by it. DRM drivers don't strike me as suitable for small/slow cores with dumb framebuffers or simple 2D only accel, such as the one found in the ASpeed BMCs. With drmfb you basically have to shadow everything into memory & copy over everything, and locks you out of simple 2D accel. For a simple text console the result is orders of magnitude slower and memory hungry than a simple fbdev. At least that was the case last I looked at the DRM stuff with Dave, maybe things have changed... Not everything has a powerful 3D GPU. Ben. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
