O/H Denis Oliver Kropp έγραψε: > 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. >
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_kms_2008&num=1 I thought this affects FBDev, DRI and in effect the future of DirectFB's drivers... _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
