George Tsalikis wrote: > O/H Denis Oliver Kropp έγραψε: >> Hi, >> >> after getting too depressed by the current state of the FBDev backend with >> the new >> surface core I decided to drop FBDev support as it no longer fits into the >> architecture. >> >> If you feel you like to fix the frame buffer device system module or better >> the frame >> buffer device itself, you're welcome to help the FBDev backend to creep over >> the 1.2 hurdle... >> >> One major bug at the moment is mode switching and pitch values being wrong. >> It's dumb to >> return the pitch of the variable mode settings in the fixed settings >> structure anyhow, but >> if you like to start with the above mentioned mission, that's where it could >> begin. >> >> And while you're at it, please also add an ioctl to just simply set the >> display offset without >> a virtual resolution and x/y offset values within the whole frame buffer... >> >> I have no idea why the FBDev backend uses the wrong pitch (4096) after >> switching to RGB16 which >> should have a pitch of 2048. One out of ten tries did work though. I >> remember it has been >> working once I added several workarounds and hacks to keep the FBDev backend >> alive, but somehow >> the code or core have changed, I don't know and I'm not in the mood of >> spending time on cruft >> like VTs, FBDev etc... >> >> Volunteers are welcome, urgently, I'm going to make a first release >> candidate of 1.2 tomorrow, >> most likely after removing the fbdev system module. >> > > How are things going with FBDev? > > IS there a roadmap about supporting the new modesetting infrastructure? > Esp. now that modesetting is entering the kernel... DirectFB without > FBDev is simply not DirectFB!
What new infrastructure? Mode setting has been in kernel all time. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
