Re: [PATCH V2] video: implement a simple framebuffer driver

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On Tuesday 30 April 2013 14:48:08 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 04/30/2013 02:42 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:28:42 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 30 April 2013, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> >>> The bootloader would init the display hardware, the bootfb would give an
> >>> early /dev/fb0 for the kernel and userspace, and when the real display
> >>> driver is loaded, the bootfb would be unbound and the real driver would
> >>> take over.
> > 
> > This could be done with a KMS driver as well ;-)
> 
> Right, I forgot to mention that. I had it in mind also =).
> 
> DRM has the same problem as fbdev with multi-arch and lots of display
> and panel drivers.
> 
> Probably the same bootfb could be used for DRM also. Or do you see any
> benefit of having a "bootkms" driver, or such?

As part of the (long term) effort to deprecate fbdev I would of course prefer 
a bootkms driver. The KMS fbdev emulation layer would provide fbdev 
compatibility for free during the transition.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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