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Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver

From One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver
Date 2016-11-18 15:20 +0100
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> AIUI, we're not taking new FB drivers. This should be a DRM driver 
> instead.

Yes - clone one of the dumb DRM drivers, or if you've got any little bits
of acceleration (even rolling the display) then it's possibly worth
accelerating for text mode.

> > +- max-width: The width of the framebuffer in pixels.
> > +- max-height: The height of the framebuffer in pixels.
> > +- bits-per-color: only "8" is currently supported  
> 
> These are not h/w properties.

How are the max ones not hardware properties ?

Alan

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[PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver "Ong, Hean Loong" <hean.loong.ong@intel.com> - 2016-11-16 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 15:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-18 15:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 20:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver "Ong, Hean Loong" <hean.loong.ong@intel.com> - 2016-11-21 03:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2016-11-23 08:40 +0100

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