From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:43:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Message-Id: <1481233393.26959.53.camel@kernel.crashing.org> List-Id: References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <1481158879.26959.41.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <035da7a8-5a3f-1ef6-f686-479773e78084@ti.com> <1481232210.26959.47.camel@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <1481232210.26959.47.camel@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Petazzoni , Noralf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tr=F8nnes?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , airlied@linux.ie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > From memory, David claimed you cannot directly work on the fb with a "proper" > > DRM driver. Maybe I misunderstood but then the DRM shines by its complete > absence of useful documentation That sentence should have been in the past, it does look like documentation has been landing in the tree this year ! yay ! I'll go off read it. > mixed with bazillion layers of APIs and helpers > so it's pretty hard to get ones head around it without wasting very large amounts > of time which I don't have at the moment. Ben.