Samsung SoCs framebuffer re-work

[Pawel Osciak]

> Ben Dooks wrote:
>On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:09:25PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:59:29AM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
>> >
>> >> As you can see the s5pc110 (aka s5pv210) spec, It has more features
>> >> and interconnection between FIMC and FIMD.
>> >> So current fb driver can't handle these features well. So LSI make a
>> >> own fb drivers and use it. You can see the code at their git repo.
>> >>
>> >> Now we are re-implement or change it for s5pc110 and for future usages.
>> >> How do you think?
>> >
>> > I've already got updates for s3c-fb to work on 2416,2443 and the
>c110/v210
>> > systems. I am talking with the relevant people at System.LSI to get our
>> > drivers closers together, possibly we can get this done for the current
>> > merge window.
>>
>> You mean you want to use the current fb drivers for s5pc110 also?
>> Then how to do implement features mentioned by Kukjin?
>
>Well, apart from the fact that quite a lot of them are actually features
>that are in all versions of this block, we intend to create some patches
>and send them to the relevant lists...

I posted patches for s3c-fb back in September (Sep. 3rd and 11th), which
added some of the abovementioned features, including VSYNC, double-buffering
support, color-keying, alpha blending and more. Are there any plans for
those?

Best regards
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Pawel Osciak
Linux Platform Group
Samsung Poland R&D Center