From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sekhar Nori Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 09:56:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform Message-Id: <51838994.7070805@ti.com> List-Id: References: <1366804808-22720-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On 4/26/2013 11:16 AM, Prabhakar Lad wrote: > 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. But I doubt you will be able to sneak a new fbdev driver through. Last time I heard, Andrew is only taking in fixes not new features. Thanks, Sekhar