Hi all,
On 27 September 2015 at 14:09, Noralf Trønnes noralf@tronnes.org wrote:
Den 24.09.2015 14:27, skrev Tomi Valkeinen:
Hi all,
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.
xgifb was added in 2010, and is still in staging.
fbtft looks like maybe some kind of framework on top of fbdev, with fbtft specific subdrivers... I didn't look at it in detail, but my gut says "never".
I have done some work [1] to try and make fbtft look more like the rest of the kernel (doc [2]), but that work will result in an almost complete rewrite of fbtft. From a very quick skim fbtft looks pretty much like drm/panel. We
presently have 30+ 'simple' dsi panels, plus a bunch of spi ones. Have you had a look at these ?
Cheers, Emil