On Friday 25 September 2015, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:27:01PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
So let's not add any more new fbdev drivers.
I will continue to maintain the current fbdev drivers, and I don't mind adding some new features to those current drivers, as long as the amount of code required to add the features stays sensible.
I see we have three fbdev drivers in staging: xgifb, fbtft and sm750fb, and the question is what to do with those.
I was still planning to work on xgifb as I need it on some systems for the console.
xgifb supports these devices: PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_20 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_27 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_40 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_42
Two of them are already supported by sisfb: PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_20 PCI_VENDOR_ID_XGI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_XGI_40
So I think that support for the remaining two (and missing features, if any) should be added to sisfb.