[PATCH] Add m1bpp (monochrome, 1 bit/pixel) pixel format

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Drew,

On 15 September 2017 at 16:21, Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> wrote:
> On 2017-09-15  6:17 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>> DRM is for driving any kind of display, GPU or not, acceleratable or
>> not. What it gives us is a standard userspace ABI to poke all display
>> devices with.
>>
>> There could be other reasons to not write a DRM driver, but "only for
>> GPU stuff" is not one.
>
> Good to know, thanks for clarifying. I hadn't dug that deeply into it.
> You're correct, though, that there are other reasons not to add it to
> DRM. There's no standard way of connecting this display to your
> computer, and there would be cause for users to want to do it
> differently if an attempt at standardization was made. That's probably a
> solvable problem, but would require extending DRM in ways that aren't
> really worth the trouble imo. It'd be cool, though.

I don't think it would involve extending DRM at all. DRM already
handles all kinds of weird panels, connected through SPI, bit-banged
I2C, DSI, and any number of transports. A lot of these require
per-platform definitions of how the panel is connected, which is done
via DeviceTree. You can look at almost any driver to see how this is
done.

Cheers,
Daniel