There is already one KMS abstraction layer (libkms.so) in libdrm, maybe it can serve as what we needed.
Regards, Jammy On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Clark, Rob <r...@ti.com> wrote: > I'm still in the learning-as-I-go phase here, so definitely not ready > to propose a solution, but it does seem to me like there is room for > some sort of kms-helper library here to handle more of the boilerplate > xf86-video-* stuff.. I guess I'll have a better picture once I have a > chance to add support for the various multi-monitor configurations. > But certainly would be interested if anyone already has some ideas. > > BR, > -R > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Jesse Barker <jesse.bar...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > Speaking for the Linaro graphics working group, I think it's great. And, > I > > think you're right, that if enough of the KMS support in xf86-video-* is > > similar enough (I was only aware of intel and nouveau supporting it > properly > > at current), pulling it out into a common layer would make it easier to > > support in new drivers (including fbdev). > > > > cheers, > > Jesse > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > >> > >> On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Clark, Rob wrote: > >> > I'd been experimenting a bit on the side w/ the DRM driver framework ( > >> > > >> > > http://gitorious.com/~robclark/pandaboard/robclarks-kernel-omap4/commits/omap_gpu > >> > ), but had to add a good chunk of mostly boilerplate code to our xorg > >> > driver in order just to test it. Maybe some generic support for KMS > >> > in xf86-video-fbdev would have made this easier to develop the kernel > >> > part without in parallel having to implement the userspace part. I'm > >> > not sure if this is the sort of thing the linaro-wg has in mind? > >> > >> I'm not sure what the the linaro multimedia wg thinks of this, but the > >> kernel code you linked looks like it's doing exactly the right thing. > >> > >> Arnd > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> linaro-dev mailing list > >> linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev >
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