On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:59:56 -0400 Drew DeVault <[email protected]> wrote:
> I missed this from your earlier email: > > >I believe that all the formats* are analogous to the ones used in the > >kernel, as defined in drm_fourcc.h. > >Is there such an equivalent, if not should one consider adding one first? > > Adding support for this screen in Linux is an interesting idea... but > perhaps too much work for too little gain. It can't be GPU accellerated > so DRM doesn't give much value-add here. 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. Thanks, pq
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