Re: [directfb-users] DirectFB without FBDev

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Denis Oliver Kropp [off-list ref] wrote:

Alex Deucher wrote:

quoted

As you may or may not be aware, the drm is slowly getting modesetting
support including support for multiple crtcs and outputs and better
memory management.  Development is currently focusing on intel, but
AMD support will follow soon.  It even provides a legacy fbdev compat
layer.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/log/?h=modesetting-101

It looks interesting and we should consider using libdrm in DirectFB,
but I could not find anything about display layers and it's already quite
big and kernel side drivers have this GPL issue etc...

In theory the code will be X11 licensed since it's coming from Xorg
and shared with BSD, but I guess it's kind of a grey area.

Alex

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