From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:42:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] video: implement a simple framebuffer driver Message-Id: <1547536.Us4pVspuI2@avalon> List-Id: References: <1365043183-28905-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <517F7245.2050606@iki.fi> <201304301228.42245.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201304301228.42245.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:28:42 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 30 April 2013, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > > The bootloader would init the display hardware, the bootfb would give an > > early /dev/fb0 for the kernel and userspace, and when the real display > > driver is loaded, the bootfb would be unbound and the real driver would > > take over. This could be done with a KMS driver as well ;-) > I think that's a great idea. What I'm not sure about is how that > infrastructure for switching frame buffers would work and how hard it's to > write. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart