Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:03:17 +0200 | Subject | Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@gmail.com> wrote: >> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All >> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM. > > > What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the > kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?
That would indeed be a showstopper...
I dropped the dependency, and gave it a quick try for m68knommu. Seems like DRM currently needs pgprot_writecombine() and pte_wrprotect(). Probably that can be fixed easily.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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