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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: "Honza Petrouš" <jpetrous@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastien LEDUC <sebastien.leduc@st.com>,
	"linux-media@vger.kernel.org" <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mediacontroller for framebuffer
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:17:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <145372199.rVcaveV4h8@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJbz7-3ffWJTD-NH=JWAsUVWKGbuBm7g_OTEZ1R010X5aS_VbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Honza,

On Friday 22 January 2016 08:23:44 Honza Petrouš wrote:
> Hi Laurent
> 
> >> I have seen that a long time ago you had done some prototyping work for
> >> exposing framebuffer devices as media entities:
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fbdev/msg04408.html
> >> 
> >> What did happen to this prototyping ?
> >> Seems it has never been merged, so could you please explain why ?
> >> 
> >> We have some similar needs, so I'd like to understand the right way to go
> > 
> > The prototype has been dropped as the framebuffer subsystem got
> > deprecated. Display drivers should now use DRM/KMS.
> 
> FB is deprecated? Can you, please, provide some links regarding such talk?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/24/253

> Sorry for my ignorance, I was never so deep in DRM/KMS (as I treat that
> as big gun for my small embedded systems I was working on) and I'm
> still happy with simple FB support which I get from kernel.

DRM/KMS might be a bit complex for simple display controllers, but helpers 
that simplify driver development would certainly be welcome. All it will take 
is someone to write them :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20 13:52 mediacontroller for framebuffer Sebastien LEDUC
2016-01-21 22:26 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-01-22  7:23   ` Honza Petrouš
2016-01-22 16:17     ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]

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