The frame buffer device subsystem has been in active use on non-ia32
architectures for several years. Thus it's more or less stable ;-)
The `development' refers more to the individual drivers that can be used on
ia32: most of them are relatively new. Drivers that are used on other
architectures too, especially the m68k ones, are older and more stable.
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Joe wrote:
> > > I was reading the documentation for the Linux kernel framebuffer
> > > device and it said "IMPORTANT: For 2.1.x kernels, go into the
> > > Code Maturity Level menu, and enable the prompt for development
> > > andor incomplete drivers. This is no longer necessary for the
> > > 2.2.x kernels."
> >
> > For x86 and Alpha, I would say that vesafb and matroxfb are pretty
> > stable, atyfb (ATI) mostly stable, but the others are either not stable
> > or simply don't support x86 platform.
> >
> > This is changing though ;-)
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > P.S. A good place to address further questions would be the fbdev
> > mailing list, linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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