From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:09:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5605479A.2020903@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com>
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On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
>> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
>
> What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the
> kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?
I guess not.
Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if
the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work
that is, I have no idea.
Tom
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From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:09:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5605479A.2020903@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com>
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On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
>> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
>
> What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the
> kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?
I guess not.
Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if
the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work
that is, I have no idea.
Tom
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From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:09:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5605479A.2020903@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com>
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On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
>> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
>
> What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the
> kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?
I guess not.
Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if
the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work
that is, I have no idea.
Tom
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 12:27 No more new fbdev drivers, please Tomi Valkeinen
2015-09-24 12:27 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-09-24 12:27 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-09-24 12:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-24 12:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-24 15:21 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 15:21 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-24 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-24 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-24 15:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 15:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 15:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 16:17 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 16:17 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-24 17:12 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-24 17:12 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-24 17:12 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-24 18:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 18:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 18:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-24 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-26 8:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 8:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 8:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 17:07 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-26 17:07 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-26 17:07 ` Alex Deucher
2015-09-26 18:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 18:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 18:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 18:13 ` David Herrmann
2015-09-26 18:13 ` David Herrmann
2015-09-26 18:13 ` David Herrmann
2015-09-26 18:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 18:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 18:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 20:49 ` Rob Clark
2015-09-26 20:49 ` Rob Clark
2015-09-26 20:49 ` Rob Clark
2015-09-26 21:55 ` Dave Airlie
2015-09-26 21:55 ` Dave Airlie
2015-09-30 11:59 ` Emil Velikov
2015-09-30 11:59 ` Emil Velikov
2015-09-28 7:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-28 7:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-28 7:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-28 12:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-28 12:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-28 12:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-29 8:23 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-29 8:23 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-29 8:23 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-09-29 8:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-09-29 8:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-09-29 8:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-09-28 20:52 ` Bernie Thompson
2015-09-29 7:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-29 7:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-29 7:05 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-28 20:56 ` Bernie Thompson
2015-09-28 20:56 ` Bernie Thompson
2015-09-25 8:49 ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-09-25 8:49 ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-09-25 11:00 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-25 11:00 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-25 11:00 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-09-25 10:41 ` Kamil Lulko
2015-09-25 10:41 ` Kamil Lulko
2015-09-25 13:09 ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2015-09-25 13:09 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-09-25 13:09 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-09-25 18:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-25 18:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-25 18:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-26 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-09-26 7:15 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-26 7:27 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-26 7:15 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-26 7:29 ` Ilia Mirkin
2015-09-26 7:29 ` Ilia Mirkin
2015-09-26 7:29 ` Ilia Mirkin
2015-09-27 13:09 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-27 13:09 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-27 16:08 ` Emil Velikov
2015-09-27 16:08 ` Emil Velikov
2015-09-27 16:08 ` Emil Velikov
2015-09-28 22:51 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-28 22:51 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-28 22:51 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-29 7:07 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-29 7:07 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-09-29 7:07 ` Daniel Vetter
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