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? All three major GPU device classes have KMS support (Intel, ATI, and nVidia). If you want it for a particular device, you can always port it over. As for fbdev emulation, what's still using it? There's nothing stopping projects from converting over; X and Wayland can already handle KMS APIs just fine. > 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: 1) inertia: fbdev has been around a lot longer, and provides most of what embedded devices need anyway 2) feature set: why bother doing a full KMS driver if you're not going to use any of the additional features it would provide (output management, memory management, execution management) Jesse -- 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
