Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:49:23 +0300 | From | Aaro Koskinen <> | Subject | Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please |
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Hi,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:27:01PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All > new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. > > So let's not add any more new fbdev drivers. > > I will continue to maintain the current fbdev drivers, and I don't mind > adding some new features to those current drivers, as long as the amount > of code required to add the features stays sensible. > > I see we have three fbdev drivers in staging: xgifb, fbtft and sm750fb, > and the question is what to do with those.
I was still planning to work on xgifb as I need it on some systems for the console.
A.
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