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Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

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
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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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