On 10/14/2013 1:02 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a repository for the SimpleFB drivers[the DRI driver and the plain >> framebuffer driver]? > Which drivers are you exactly talking about? Do you have links to the > patches? There're several independent projects called "simplefb". If > you're talking about the simplefb fbdev driver, it's developed > upstream and available since linux-3.10 (linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org > ML). SimpleDRM is developed on this list and still experimental. > There're no "upstream" repositories just for the drivers. Patches on > the ML is all there is.
Thanks, it was both of those I was looking for[the one that has been upstreamed and the DRI one] I want to use simplefb and the USB webcam gadget to create a USB display solution - similar to DisplayLink but entirely opensource. The UVC standard supports streaming in framebuffer mode - and some of the standard transmission methods have compression options - as well as allowing for 'vendor defined' formats - so rather than having to reverse engineer proprietary displaylink compression methods - I prefer to use a complete open source solution. simplefb looks like a good fit since it allows me to define the memory region for the framebuffer to use - so if I can initialize that in the videobuffer it cuts down on memory copies.
