# Re: \[PATCH 00/30\] fbdev: Make userspace interfaces optional

- From: Thomas Zimmermann \<tzimmermann@suse.de\>
- Date: 2023-06-12 10:46:25 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2023/06/9236175
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-staging/2023/06/9235806/t/2.md

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Hi

Am 07.06.23 um 10:35 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
[...]
>
> BTW, I am wondering if it would be possible to write a DRM emulation
> layer on top of (basic, e.g. no MMIO, just fb) fbdev?

That exists, sort of.  I first posted it here:

  https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/58569/

and it has later been transformed into these conversion helpers that I have somewhere on gitlab.

Best regards
Thomas

>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>

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