* Relation of FBDev and DRM/KMS
@ 2010-06-18 2:59 Arvid Picciani
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From: Arvid Picciani @ 2010-06-18 2:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-fbdev
Hi,
I'm trying to crowbar some extra VMemory into fbdev devices to abuse
them in a similar fashion to what DRM does. I'm trying to avoid DRM for
various reasons, but it seems all of the new stuff _only_ goes in DRM.
Specifically, the intel/nvidia drivers seems to be only useful in
combination with DRM. I need KMS for laziness, but that needs DRM?
No way to get kms without running DRM?
If i have to run DRM, is there any Documentation that explains the
relation to fbdev? Eyeballing around in the intel code tells me, the
framebuffer is actually a DRM gem thingy. Can i sort of blit other DRM
gems onto a framebuffer?
If i can avoid DRM, any idea how i could allocate small VMem areas from
userspace on demand? FB seems to have no api for that at all.
All we have is a single large VMem area to pixel manipulate.
Unless i totally missread that code. I am guessing, i could archive what
i want by adding some extra ioctls, but i dont see where, since the device
is abstracted away from the drivers.
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Arvid
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