No more new fbdev drivers, please

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 04:09:46PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/09/15 13:41, Kamil Lulko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
> >> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
> > 
> > What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the
> > kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?
> 
> I guess not.
> 
> Then again, I don't see why DRM would have a hard dependency to MMU, if
> the work is done to make DRM work optionally without MMU. How much work
> that is, I have no idea.

We have plenty drivers in drm without hw mmu, and yeah there's probably no
reason at all why the drm subsystem has a hard depency on cpu MMUs. Might
be some #ifdef fallout that needs to be done, but there shouldn't be
anything fundamental. Maybe the old dri1 days code has something, but
that's all historical cruft anyway.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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