Messages in this thread | | | From | Prabhakar Lad <> | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:16:28 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform |
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Hi Laurent,
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote: > Hi Prabhakar, > > Thank you for the patch. > > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote: >> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> >> >> This patch series adds an fbdev driver for Texas >> Instruments Davinci SoC.The display subsystem consists >> of OSD and VENC, with OSD supporting 2 RGb planes and >> 2 video planes. >> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/lit/ >> getliterature.tsp?literatureNumber=sprue37d&fileType=pdf >> >> A good amount of the OSD and VENC enabling code is >> present in the kernel, and this patch series adds the >> fbdev interface. >> >> The fbdev driver exports 4 nodes representing each >> plane to the user - from fb0 to fb3. > > The obvious question is: why not a KMS driver instead ? :-) > I did go through the KMS model (thanks for pointing to your work and the video) and it looks like this would require a fair amount of development, at this point of time I would go with the current implementation and revisit on KMS model at later point of time.
Regards, --Prabhakar
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