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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So it is possible, only reason vram dumb buffers look worse is that there's
>> only 3 and no one cares about them, vs about 20 and a very active community
>> of contributors (also for core drm improvements) for the other case.
>
> Well, we could move offb to drm while at it I suppose that would be another
> one (offb is the "dumb driver based on pre-programmed output by firmware).

That would indeed be a great example.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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