Subject: [PATCH V2] video: implement a simple framebuffer driver

From: [email-masked] (Tomi Valkeinen)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:48:08 +0300

On 04/30/2013 02:42 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 April 2013 12:28:42 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 April 2013, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>> The bootloader would init the display hardware, the bootfb would give an
>>> early /dev/fb0 for the kernel and userspace, and when the real display
>>> driver is loaded, the bootfb would be unbound and the real driver would
>>> take over.
> 
> This could be done with a KMS driver as well ;-)

Right, I forgot to mention that. I had it in mind also =).

DRM has the same problem as fbdev with multi-arch and lots of display
and panel drivers.

Probably the same bootfb could be used for DRM also. Or do you see any
benefit of having a "bootkms" driver, or such?

 Tomi

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