Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 18 authors, 2015-09-30

Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

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From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Date: 2015-09-25 08:50:39
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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.

A.
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