On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:50:32 -0500 Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:29:54 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > 1) It's part of DRM, so it doesn't help fb or v4l2 drivers. Except if > > the plan is to make DRM the core Linux display framework, upon which > > everything else is built, and fb and v4l2 are changed to use DRM. > > I'd like to think we could make DRM the underlying display framework; > it already exposes an fb interface, and with overlays, a bit more of the > v4l2 stuff is done as well. Certainly eliminating three copies of mode > setting infrastructure would be nice... V4L2 needs to interface with the DRM anyway. Lots of current hardware wants things like shared 1080i/p camera buffers with video in order to do preview on video and the like. In my semi-perfect world vision fb would be a legacy layer on top of DRM. DRM would get the silly recovery fail cases fixed, and a kernel console would be attachable to a GEM object of your choice. Alan -- 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
