Re: [PATCH/RFT] fbdev driver for HP Visualize FX cards

[Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> writes:

> Am 31.10.21 um 20:53 schrieb Sven Schnelle:
>> Hi List(s),
>> i wrote a fbdev driver for the HP Visualize FX cards used some of
>> the
>> PA-RISC workstations. It utilizes some of the 2D acceleration features
>> present in the card.
>> [..]
>
> Thanks for all the work you put into this. We welcome drivers even for
> older hardware, but not for fbdev. DRM is all the rage now and has
> been for a while. I'd like to ask you to convert the driver to DRM and
> resubmit to <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>.
>
> I while ago, I made conversion helpers for this. You can look at [1]
> for a trivial DRM drivers that wraps existing fbdev drivers for use
> with DRM. Once you have that, it turns into a refactoring job.

Thanks, i wasn't aware as i normally don't do any graphics related
development. I take a look at dri and port the driver, which is
hopefully not too hard.

Sven