From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Tom Cooksey <tom.cooksey@arm.com>
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of exporting an fbdev framebuffer with dma_buf?
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:12:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446369.MK0i6vhK4t@avalon> (raw)
Hi Tom,
On Tuesday 09 April 2013 12:21:08 Tom Cooksey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Last year Laurent posted an RFC patch[i] to add support for exporting an
> fbdev framebuffer through dma_buf. Looking through the mailing list
> archives, it doesn't appear to have progressed beyond an RFC? What would be
> needed to get this merged? It would be useful for our Mali T6xx driver
> (which supports importing dma_buf buffers) to allow the GPU to draw
> directly into the framebuffer on platforms which lack a DRM/KMS driver.
The patch was pretty simple, I don't think it would take lots of efforts to
get it to mainline. On the other hand, fbdev is a dying API, so I'm not sure
how much energy we want to spend on upgrading it. I suppose all that would be
needed is a developer with enough interest in the topic to fix the patch
according to the comments.
> [i] Subject: "[RFC/PATCH] fb: Add dma-buf support", sent 20/06/2012.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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