From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:03:17 +0000 Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Message-Id: List-Id: References: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kamil Lulko Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Tomi Valkeinen , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , DRI Development On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Kamil Lulko wrote: >> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All >> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. > > > What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the > kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices? That would indeed be a showstopper... I dropped the dependency, and gave it a quick try for m68knommu. Seems like DRM currently needs pgprot_writecombine() and pte_wrprotect(). Probably that can be fixed easily. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds