From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com (Prabhakar Lad) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:16:28 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform In-Reply-To: <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> References: <1366804808-22720-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Laurent, On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Prabhakar, > > Thank you for the patch. > > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote: >> From: Lad, Prabhakar >> >> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas >> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists >> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and >> 2 video planes. >> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/ >> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf >> >> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is >> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the >> fbdev interface. >> >> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each >> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3. > > The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-) > I did go through the KMS model (thanks for pointing to your work and the video) and it looks like this would require a fair amount of development, at this point of time I would go with the current implementation and revisit on KMS model at later point of time. Regards, --Prabhakar