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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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.