From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from galahad.ideasonboard.com ([185.26.127.97]:58609 "EHLO galahad.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbcAUW0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:26:06 -0500 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Sebastien LEDUC Cc: "linux-media@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: mediacontroller for framebuffer Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:26:24 +0200 Message-ID: <1707301.3M6CagkYeP@avalon> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Sebastien, On Wednesday 20 January 2016 14:52:30 Sebastien LEDUC 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. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart