[RFC 0/1] drm: Add Grain Media GM12U320 kms driver

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Sat Jun 10 09:49:09 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 09-06-17 22:59, Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita wrote:
> Hi Devs!
> 
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I don't think that using cma for the gm12u320 is a good idea, it will
>> typically be used as a secondary GPU output together with a real GPU
>> extending the desktop by being a prime display output. So for the memory
>> management stuff I would keep the code copied from the udl driver (which
>> we may later split out in a separate helper lib for devices where
>> the framebuffer is in normal system memory and we have some scather-gather
>> capable process copying it to the real device over e.g. USB)
>>
> 
> I got the PL111 driver and stripped all device specific code. Also, I
> added the get_modes and driver usb probe functions from gm12u320. The
> resulting code is available in
> https://gitlab.com/marcodiego/dummy-display-driver .

Cool, I'm glad to see that you are making progress on this!

Regards,

Hans


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