Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758823Ab3DZFqv (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:46:51 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com ([74.125.82.181]:61922 "EHLO mail-we0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754010Ab3DZFqt (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:46:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> References: <1366804808-22720-1-git-send-email-prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> <1780031.B4OAypccep@avalon> From: Prabhakar Lad Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:16:28 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Davinci fbdev driver and enable it for DMx platform To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: DLOS , LMML , LFBDEV , LAK , LKML , Sekhar Nori , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Florian Tobias Schandinat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 39 Hi Laurent, On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Prabhakar, > > Thank you for the patch. > > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 17:30:02 Prabhakar Lad wrote: >> From: Lad, Prabhakar >> >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/