No more new fbdev drivers, please

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 00:39:13 PDT 2015


  Hi,

> As Daniel mentioned, the connector+encoder+crtc combination is one of
> those simplifications that would make sense if more such drivers are
> added.

Another one is memory management.  It's pretty complex because it can
handle _way_ more than what simple drivers need, and the result is
_alot_ of ttm boilerplate in the drivers.

cheers,
  Gerd




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