Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:22:09 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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Wut. We have like 20+ small atomic drivers nowdays.

That's fast! Only two weeks ago you said:

| Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of
| them floating around in various places ...

You're not talking about the same thing I believe.

When Daniel says "small atomic drivers", he talks about the relatively
small DRM drivers for SoC display controllers, such as the ones you can
find in ARM SoCs.

When you say "small driver", you're thinking about drivers for I2C or
SPI connected displays.

No, I wasn't thinking about I2C or SPI connected displays, but about simple
dumb memory-mapped frame buffers, which is what fbdev was initially
developed for.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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