[RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 8 21:43:13 UTC 2016
On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > From memory, David claimed you cannot directly work on the fb with a "proper"
>
> DRM driver. Maybe I misunderstood but then the DRM shines by its complete
> absence of useful documentation
That sentence should have been in the past, it does look like
documentation has been landing in the tree this year ! yay ! I'll go
off read it.
> mixed with bazillion layers of APIs and helpers
> so it's pretty hard to get ones head around it without wasting very large amounts
> of time which I don't have at the moment.
Ben.
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