[PATCH] i.MX23/28 framebuffer driver

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Feb 16 07:22:07 EST 2011


On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Clark, Rob wrote:
> I'd been experimenting a bit on the side w/ the DRM driver framework (
> http://gitorious.com/~robclark/pandaboard/robclarks-kernel-omap4/commits/omap_gpu
> ), but had to add a good chunk of mostly boilerplate code to our xorg
> driver in order just to test it.  Maybe some generic support for KMS
> in xf86-video-fbdev would have made this easier to develop the kernel
> part without in parallel having to implement the userspace part.  I'm
> not sure if this is the sort of thing the linaro-wg has in mind?

I'm not sure what the the linaro multimedia wg thinks of this, but the
kernel code you linked looks like it's doing exactly the right thing.

	Arnd



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