I'm still in the learning-as-I-go phase here, so definitely not ready to propose a solution, but it does seem to me like there is room for some sort of kms-helper library here to handle more of the boilerplate xf86-video-* stuff.. I guess I'll have a better picture once I have a chance to add support for the various multi-monitor configurations. But certainly would be interested if anyone already has some ideas. BR, -R On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Speaking for the Linaro graphics working group, I think it's great. And, I > think you're right, that if enough of the KMS support in xf86-video-* is > similar enough (I was only aware of intel and nouveau supporting it properly > at current), pulling it out into a common layer would make it easier to > support in new drivers (including fbdev). > > cheers, > Jesse > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Clark, Rob wrote: >> > I'd been experimenting a bit on the side w/ the DRM driver framework ( >> > >> > http://gitorious.com/~robclark/pandaboard/robclarks-kernel-omap4/commits/omap_gpu >> > ), but had to add a good chunk of mostly boilerplate code to our xorg >> > driver in order just to test it. Maybe some generic support for KMS >> > in xf86-video-fbdev would have made this easier to develop the kernel >> > part without in parallel having to implement the userspace part. I'm >> > not sure if this is the sort of thing the linaro-wg has in mind? >> >> I'm not sure what the the linaro multimedia wg thinks of this, but the >> kernel code you linked looks like it's doing exactly the right thing. >> >> Arnd >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linaro-dev mailing list >> linaro-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
