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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
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        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>,
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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:43:13 +1100
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On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > From memory, David claimed you cannot directly work on the fb with a "proper"
> 
> DRM driver. Maybe I misunderstood but then the DRM shines by its complete
> absence of useful documentation 

That sentence should have been in the past, it does look like
documentation has been landing in the tree this year ! yay ! I'll go
off read it.

> mixed with bazillion layers of APIs and helpers
> so it's pretty hard to get ones head around it without wasting very large amounts
> of time which I don't have at the moment.

Ben.