Wow, seems there's a lot more interest in this idea than I expected!
Thanks for the feedback!
Eric Anholt wrote:
Sounds like a fun project, and doable. I'd just recommend that you
reduce the scope slightly from a full KMS driver to an unaccelerated KMS
driver ... [snip]
I think there would be a lot of value beyond just cirrus users in having
an unaccelerated KMS example driver -- plenty of (old) hardware out
there that could have much nicer linux support using KMS if people saw
it was easy to build, since most older accelerators aren't that
interesting today.
Thanks very much for the advice! Hmm, this is getting me thinking -- how
about KMSifying the vesa driver? That was the first idea I had, but my
initial research caused me to think that there wouldn't be much interest
in it.
Matt Turner wrote:
This is kind of already my planned GSoC project...
And you are an impressive competitor indeed. :)
Updating the documentation, now that sounds like a fantastic idea! In
the off-chance that we both end up working on KMSification projects, I'd
love to help!
Have a great one,
Daniel
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