Hi all, On 27 September 2015 at 14:09, Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Den 24.09.2015 14:27, skrev Tomi Valkeinen: >> >> Hi all, >> >> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All >> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. >> >> So let's not add any more new fbdev drivers. >> >> I will continue to maintain the current fbdev drivers, and I don't mind >> adding some new features to those current drivers, as long as the amount >> of code required to add the features stays sensible. >> >> I see we have three fbdev drivers in staging: xgifb, fbtft and sm750fb, >> and the question is what to do with those. >> >> xgifb was added in 2010, and is still in staging. >> >> fbtft looks like maybe some kind of framework on top of fbdev, with >> fbtft specific subdrivers... I didn't look at it in detail, but my gut >> says "never". > > > I have done some work [1] to try and make fbtft look more like the rest > of the kernel (doc [2]), but that work will result in an almost complete > rewrite of fbtft. >From a very quick skim fbtft looks pretty much like drm/panel. We presently have 30+ 'simple' dsi panels, plus a bunch of spi ones. Have you had a look at these ? Cheers, Emil _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
