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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org,
	"Clark\, Rob" <rob@ti.com>, Archit Taneja <archit@ti.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915200514.74bdcd90@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E723A20.2040002@gmx.de>

> What is your problem with discontigous framebuffers? (I assume discontigous
> refers to the pages the framebuffer is composed of)
> Sounds to me like you should implement your own fb_mmap and either map it
> contigous to screen_base or implement your own fb_read/write.
> In theory you could even have each pixel at a completely different memory
> location although some userspace wouldn't be happy when it could no longer mmap
> the framebuffer.

The mmap side is trivial, the problem is that the fb layer default
implementations of blits, fills etc only work on a kernel linear frame
buffer. And (for example) there is not enough linear stolen memory on
some Intel video for a 1080p console on HDMI even though the hardware is
perfectly capable of using an HDTV as its monitor. Nor - on a 32bit box-
is there enough space to vremap it.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 12:07 Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-15 14:59 ` Keith Packard
2011-09-15 15:29   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-15 15:50     ` Keith Packard
2011-09-15 17:05       ` Alan Cox
2011-09-17 21:36         ` Laurent Pinchart
2011-09-15 17:12       ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-15 17:18         ` Alan Cox
2011-09-15 17:47           ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-15 19:05             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-09-15 19:46               ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-15 21:31                 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-15 17:52         ` Alex Deucher
2011-09-15 17:56           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-09-15 18:04             ` Alex Deucher
2011-09-15 18:39           ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-15 18:58             ` Alan Cox
2011-09-15 19:18               ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-15 19:28                 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-15 19:45                 ` Alex Deucher
2011-09-17 14:44               ` Felipe Contreras
2011-09-17 15:16                 ` Rob Clark
2011-09-17 16:11                   ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-17 16:47                     ` Dave Airlie
2011-09-17 18:15                       ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-17 18:23                         ` Dave Airlie
2011-09-17 19:06                           ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-17 19:25                             ` Corbin Simpson
2011-09-17 21:25                             ` Alex Deucher
2011-09-17 20:25                           ` Alan Cox
2011-10-31 20:24                             ` Jesse Barnes
2011-09-17 16:50                     ` Rob Clark
2011-09-16  4:53             ` Keith Packard
2011-09-17 23:12             ` Laurent Pinchart
2011-09-18 16:14               ` Rob Clark
2011-09-18 21:55                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2011-09-18 22:23               ` Alan Cox
2011-09-19  0:09                 ` Rob Clark
2011-09-20 23:32                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2011-09-15 18:12         ` Keith Packard
2011-10-01 17:30           ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-09-15 17:21       ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-15 18:32         ` Rob Clark
2011-09-16  0:55         ` Keith Packard
2011-09-16  6:38           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-16 14:17           ` Daniel Vetter
2011-09-16 16:53           ` Alan Cox
2011-09-19  6:33             ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-19  6:53               ` Keith Packard
2011-09-19  7:29                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-20  8:29                   ` Patrik Jakobsson
2011-09-20 15:55                     ` Keith Packard
2011-09-20 21:20                       ` Patrik Jakobsson
2011-09-21  6:01                         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-09-21 18:07                           ` Patrik Jakobsson
2011-10-01 17:34         ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-09-15 15:03 ` Kyungmin Park
2011-09-21 13:26 ` Heiko Stübner
2011-10-01 16:52 ` Enrico Weigelt

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