[PATCH] i.MX23/28 framebuffer driver

[Clark, Rob]

I'm in the process of adding xrandr support to our xorg driver..
definitely more built-in support on the X side would make this easier.

BR,
-R

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Jammy Zhou <jammy.zhou at linaro.org> wrote:
> I also noticed that default XRandR1.2+ implementation is missing in X side.
> If we can implement one, it would be beneficial for all ARM platforms. By
> the way, does X driver of TI support XRandR1.2+?
>
> Regards,
> Jammy
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Clark, Rob <rob at ti.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, I was thinking more on the xf86 side of things.. ie. to provide
>> default implementations of xf86CrtcFuncsRec and xf86OutputFuncsRec
>> functions..
>>
>> BR,
>> -R
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jammy Zhou <jammy.zhou at linaro.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is already one KMS abstraction layer (libkms.so) in libdrm, maybe
>> > it can serve as what we needed.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jammy
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Clark, Rob <rob at ti.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm still in the learning-as-I-go phase here, so definitely not ready
>> >> to propose a solution, but it does seem to me like there is room for
>> >> some sort of kms-helper library here to handle more of the boilerplate
>> >> xf86-video-* stuff..  I guess I'll have a better picture once I have a
>> >> chance to add support for the various multi-monitor configurations.
>> >> But certainly would be interested if anyone already has some ideas.
>> >>
>> >> BR,
>> >> -R
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Jesse Barker <jesse.barker at linaro.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Speaking for the Linaro graphics working group, I think it's great.
>> >> > And, I
>> >> > think you're right, that if enough of the KMS support in xf86-video-*
>> >> > is
>> >> > similar enough (I was only aware of intel and nouveau supporting it
>> >> > properly
>> >> > at current), pulling it out into a common layer would make it easier
>> >> > to
>> >> > support in new drivers (including fbdev).
>> >> >
>> >> > cheers,
>> >> > Jesse
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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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