Re: [PATCH] neofb patches

[Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:42:50AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The idea here is to have a small per-card low level driver (no common
> API or little of it) used to do the IRQ, fifo/ring management & blasting
> of registers. Everything else is client of this driver, including
> possibly fbcon. That also means we move all of mode management to
> userland, which I tend to slowly agree with. Remember that in 2.7, we
> may have an initramfs with klibc etc... thus we can have userland code
> shipping along with the kernel.

The fbdev is low-level, i vote for fbdev to be the single entity
for graphics in linux.

> I started working on a userland API do deal with all of the mode
> management cruft that could be implemented either on top of fbdev or
> something else, but I didn't have time to finish. And I think Jon Smirl
> started his own different thing (of course) there...

I would like to see that basic stuff being done in the kernel like
mode setting.  The drivers should have a better idea of modes than
libraries in userspace.

-otto



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