Re: Future desktop on dumb frame buffers?

2011-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
> It's nothing fantastic, but I've had a number of people tell me that > it was useful for them. It does document some stuff nicely - not alas the bits I need to figure out at the moment but its definitely a nice reference to the basic setup. (ponders Voodoo2 DRI)

Re: Future desktop on dumb frame buffers?

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
> 1) inertia: fbdev has been around a lot longer, and provides most of > what embedded devices need anyway > 2) feature set: why bother doing a full KMS driver if you're not > going to use any of the additional features it would provide (output > management, memory management, execution m