From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Ian Molton <imolton@ad-holdings.co.uk>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: imx6 DRI/DRM
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:09:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150128130953.GK12209@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C8DC66.9080402@ad-holdings.co.uk>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:56:06PM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> On 28/01/15 12:52, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> >Hi Ian,
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:08:19PM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Can anyone tell me where best to follow / contribute to *mainline* kernel based imx6 graphics stuff?
> >>
> >>I'm currently running a 3.19-rc kernel with imx6 drm (fbdev emulation) and it works, but I'm seeing segfaults from Xfbdev.
> >>
> >>Presumably, theres a proper DRM/DRI X driver to go with the kernel bits?
> >
> >There is the xf86modesetting driver:
> >
> >http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/
> >
> >There's no dedicated i.MX X driver that works with imx-drm.
>
> Im not currently "up" on how the whole stack works - is this driver generic to anything using kms? do I still need fbdev?
The xf86modesetting driver should work with any kms driver (though it's
been some time since I last tested it with imx-drm)
You won't need fbdev, but without it the kernel does not activate the
display during boot, so it will just stay dark until X starts.
>
> Is there a good overview of things, particularly wrt. imx6?
Not that I know of, at least there's no i.MX specific drm documentation.
Sascha
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-28 12:08 imx6 DRI/DRM Ian Molton
2015-01-28 12:52 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-01-28 12:56 ` Ian Molton
2015-01-28 13:09 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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