Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	linux-fbdev <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:07:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADnq5_NL5p+sRzOvVpr=JnZ-e-vGtDD-69qapQMKawWtfVRnCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVAO8Ua4G1DRMxTKxqJaAb4xBTQie-nvOkYJ7sox-YCYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:46:21PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>> Or are there some plans to make the writing of DRM drivers for very
>>> simple/trivial devices a bit simpler?
>>
>> Since years I'm trying to sell someone on implementing support for
>> drm_simple_outputs which would collapse the crtc->encoder->connector
>> chain into 1 entity. Would be trivial to implement and then trivial to
>> write simple drivers on top of that. And besides that drm already has
>> piles of reallly simple drivers with just one output and one framebuffer.
>>
>> There's no reason not to use drm for gfx drivers at all.
>
> Good to hear that!
>
> For the (mailing list) record, can you please provide some explicit pointers
> to these existing really simple drivers?

See the tilcdc, ast, mgag200, and udl drivers for example.

Alex

>
> Thanks!
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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