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| From | Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please |
| Date | 2015-09-25 15:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <qcAVc-2gw-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qcyJI-7lE-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote: > Hi, > >> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All >> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. > > What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the > kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices? I guess not. Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work that is, I have no idea. Tom
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Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@gmail.com> - 2015-09-25 12:50 +0200
Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2015-09-25 15:10 +0200
Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2015-09-25 20:50 +0200
Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-09-26 11:10 +0200
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