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

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Thu Dec 08 2016 - 17:00:41 EST


On Wednesday 23 November 2016 09:12 AM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
On 23/11/16 10:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
Hi,

Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.

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Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's
a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from
staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC,
mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those
DRM drivers =).

I already have plans to convert my drivers to DRM. But it will be great if you can point me to a simple driver which will help me to understand how DRM works.

Regards
Sudip