Hi Honza, On Friday 22 January 2016 08:23:44 Honza Petrouš wrote: > 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? https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/24/253 > 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. DRM/KMS might be a bit complex for simple display controllers, but helpers that simplify driver development would certainly be welcome. All it will take is someone to write them :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
