[PATCH V2] video: implement a simple framebuffer driver

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed May 8 16:58:30 EDT 2013


On 05/07/2013 09:36:38 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 03:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> Subject: drivers/video: implement a simple framebuffer driver
> 
> A simple frame-buffer describes a raw memory region that may be  
> rendered
> to, with the assumption that the display hardware has already been set
> up to scan out from that buffer.
> 
> This is useful in cases where a bootloader exists and has set up the
> display hardware, but a Linux driver doesn't yet exist for the display
> hardware.
> 
> Examples use-cases include:

Virtual environments such as QEMU.

Rob


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