On 4/26/2013 11:16 AM, Prabhakar Lad wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart > <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Prabhakar, >> >> Thank you for the patch. >> >> On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote: >>> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas >>> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists >>> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and >>> 2 video planes. >>> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/ >>> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf >>> >>> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is >>> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the >>> fbdev interface. >>> >>> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each >>> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3. >> >> The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-) >> > I did go through the KMS model (thanks for pointing to your work and the video) > and it looks like this would require a fair amount of development, at this point > of time I would go with the current implementation and revisit on KMS model > at later point of time. But I doubt you will be able to sneak a new fbdev driver through. Last time I heard, Andrew is only taking in fixes not new features. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
