[PATCH 0/3] add mie driver for exynos

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Stéphane Marchesin
<stephane.marchesin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And
>> fimd, as display controller, could be controlled by linux framebuffer or drm
>> framework.
>>
>
> I don't think it's a valid point. If the framebuffer is properly done
> on top of the DRM, you don't need all of that at all.

Imo for hw with full-fledge drm kms drivers the sanest option for
traditional fbdev support is to pimp the fb helpers a bit. Pretty much
the only thing left that a real fbdev driver can do afaics is fb
reallocation - it shouldn't be too hard to (optionally) implement this
in the helpers ...
-Daniel
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