Hi Laurent >> I have seen that a long time ago you had done some prototyping work for >> exposing framebuffer devices as media entities: >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fbdev/msg04408.html >> >> What did happen to this prototyping ? >> Seems it has never been merged, so could you please explain why ? >> >> We have some similar needs, so I'd like to understand the right way to go > > The prototype has been dropped as the framebuffer subsystem got deprecated. > Display drivers should now use DRM/KMS. FB is deprecated? Can you, please, provide some links regarding such talk? Sorry for my ignorance, I was never so deep in DRM/KMS (as I treat that as big gun for my small embedded systems I was working on) and I'm still happy with simple FB support which I get from kernel. Thanks. /Honza -- 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
