> The main issue is that fbdev has been designed with the implicit assumption > that an fbdev driver will always own the graphics memory it uses. All > components in the stack, from drivers to applications, have been designed > around that assumption. > > We could of course fix this, revamp the fbdev API and turn it into a modern > graphics API, but I really wonder whether it would be worth it. DRM has been > getting quite a lot of attention lately, especially from embedded developers > and vendors, and the trend seems to me like the (Linux) world will gradually > move from fbdev to DRM. > > Please feel free to disagree :-) I would disagree on the "main issue" bit. All the graphics cards have their own formats and cache management rules. Simply sharing a buffer doesn't work - which is why all of the extra gloop will be needed. Alan _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
