[PATCH 02/11] drm/fbdevdrm: Add fbdevdrm device

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Mar 27 08:03:02 UTC 2019


On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:55 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
> This all comes from using the event-reporting mechanism to hook into the
> fbdev module. Daniel suggested to copy over some of the fbdev drivers
> for porting, which would solve the problem.

On the fbdev event reporting stuff: I have a patch series to remove
that, and replace the fbdev->fbcon interactions with direct function
calls. The locking in the notifier is a serious pain. I guess that
would be another detail we'd need to change, if we go with this
approach here.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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