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

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:09:46 +0300
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@...il.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please



On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote:
> 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?

I guess not.

Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if
the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work
that is, I have no idea.

 Tom


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