On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> ? 1) inertia: fbdev has been around a lot longer, and provides most of >> ? what embedded devices need anyway >> ? 2) feature set: why bother doing a full KMS driver if you're not >> ? going to use any of the additional features it would provide (output >> ? management, memory management, execution management) > > 3) its got documentation
My summer of code project's purpose was to create something of a tutorial for writing a KMS driver. The code, split out into something like 15 step-by-step patches, and accompanying documentation are available from Google's website. http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2010-xorg/downloads/detail?name=Matt_Turner.tar.gz My repository (doesn't include the documentation) is available here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mattst88/glint.git;a=summary There's a 'rebased' branch that contains API changes required for the code to work with 2.6.37~. It's nothing fantastic, but I've had a number of people tell me that it was useful for them. Thanks, Matt
