SimpleFB drivers repository?

SimpleFB drivers repository?

[Gary Mort]

Is there a repository for the SimpleFB drivers[the DRI driver and the 
plain framebuffer driver]?

I'd like to play around with it for a project - I discovered it via a 
google search which pointed me to some archived e-mails on this list - 
but those e-mails just contained the patches and I'd rather just pull 
the latest repository then try to locate and consolidate all the patches.

Re: SimpleFB drivers repository?

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Gary Mort <garyamort@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a repository for the SimpleFB drivers[the DRI driver and the plain
> framebuffer driver]?

Which drivers are you exactly talking about? Do you have links to the
patches? There're several independent projects called "simplefb". If
you're talking about the simplefb fbdev driver, it's developed
upstream and available since linux-3.10 (linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
ML). SimpleDRM is developed on this list and still experimental.
There're no "upstream" repositories just for the drivers. Patches on
the ML is all there is.

> I'd like to play around with it for a project - I discovered it via a google
> search which pointed me to some archived e-mails on this list - but those
> e-mails just contained the patches and I'd rather just pull the latest
> repository then try to locate and consolidate all the patches.

For simplefb just pull Linus' tree. For simpleDRM just apply the
patches. If you're talking about something else, please post some
links to the patches you're talking about.

Thanks
David

Re: SimpleFB drivers repository?

[Gary Mort]

On 10/14/2013 1:02 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Gary Mort <garyamort@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a repository for the SimpleFB drivers[the DRI driver and the plain
>> framebuffer driver]?
> Which drivers are you exactly talking about? Do you have links to the
> patches? There're several independent projects called "simplefb". If
> you're talking about the simplefb fbdev driver, it's developed
> upstream and available since linux-3.10 (linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> ML). SimpleDRM is developed on this list and still experimental.
> There're no "upstream" repositories just for the drivers. Patches on
> the ML is all there is.

Thanks, it was both of those I was looking for[the one that has been 
upstreamed and the DRI one]

I want to use simplefb and the USB webcam gadget to create a USB display 
solution - similar to DisplayLink but entirely opensource.

The UVC standard supports streaming in framebuffer mode - and some of 
the standard transmission methods have compression options - as well as 
allowing for 'vendor defined' formats - so rather than having to reverse 
engineer proprietary displaylink compression methods - I prefer to use a 
complete open source solution.


simplefb looks like a good fit since it allows me to define the memory 
region for the framebuffer to use - so if I can initialize that in the 
videobuffer it cuts down on memory copies.