linux-kernel - Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

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Message-ID: <560524E7.4020707@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:41:43 +0200
From:	Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@...il.com>
To:	tomi.valkeinen@...com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

Hi,

> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.

What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the 
kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?

/Kamil
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