On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Then we have no choice left and go with KMS driver itself though it would take some time since KMS is a new inclusion into DRM. Regards, --Prabhakar -- 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
