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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Luc Verhaegen" <libv@skynet.be>,
	"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:08:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804190855.413ed8d5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160804150843.GL6232@phenom.ffwll.local>

> firmware framebuffer in early boot until a real driver takes over. It's a
> replacement really for all the various uefi/vesa/whatever fbdev drivers.
> Full reliance on the firmware very much intended.

Most of those have firmware interfaces for things like colour setting and
hardware scrolling. It's a replacement for far less than might first
appear but still useful.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-04 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-04 14:03 [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:45   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 17:05   ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 17:12     ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 15:08   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 15:34     ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 15:44       ` David Herrmann
2016-08-04 15:59         ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 17:10           ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 18:08     ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-08-04 16:58   ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 18:12     ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-05  7:18       ` Hans de Goede
2016-08-04 14:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 17:30   ` Noralf Trønnes

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