linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

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Date:   Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:43:13 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
        Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>, airlied@...ux.ie
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > From memory, David claimed you cannot directly work on the fb with a "proper"
> 
> DRM driver. Maybe I misunderstood but then the DRM shines by its complete
> absence of useful documentation 

That sentence should have been in the past, it does look like
documentation has been landing in the tree this year ! yay ! I'll go
off read it.

> mixed with bazillion layers of APIs and helpers
> so it's pretty hard to get ones head around it without wasting very large amounts
> of time which I don't have at the moment.

Ben.