Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-30 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:41:46PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Florian Tobias Schandinat >> > If he wants different (independent) content on each output, just provide >> > multiple /dev/fbX devices. I admit

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:41:46PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Florian Tobias Schandinat > > If he wants different (independent) content on each output, just provide > > multiple /dev/fbX devices. I admit that we could use a controlling interface > > here that deci

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Florian Tobias Schandinat
Guennadi Liakhovetski schrieb: On Fri, 28 May 2010, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: Well hiding complexity is actually the job of an API. I don't see any need for major changes in fbdev for complex display setups. In most cases as a userspace application you really don't want to be bothered ho

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > Alex Deucher schrieb: >> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alex Deucher wrote: >>> Another API to consider in the drm kms (kernel modesetting) interface. >>

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > Well hiding complexity is actually the job of an API. I don't see any need for > major changes in fbdev for complex display setups. In most cases as a > userspace application you really don't want to be bothered how many different > output de

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Florian Tobias Schandinat
Alex Deucher schrieb: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alex Deucher wrote: Another API to consider in the drm kms (kernel modesetting) interface. The kms API deals properly with advanced display hardware and properly handles crtcs, encoders,

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alex Deucher wrote: > >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski >> wrote: > > ... > >> > Ok, let me explain what exactly I meant. Above I referred to "display >> > drivers," which is not the same

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
(re-adding lists to CC) On Thu, 27 May 2010, Rob Clark wrote: > Hi Guennadi, > > Sounds like an interesting idea... but how about the inverse? A v4l2 > interface on top of fbdev. If v4l2 was more widely available as an output > device, perhaps more userspace software would utilize it. Don't s

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-28 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski > wrote: ... > > Ok, let me explain what exactly I meant. Above I referred to "display > > drivers," which is not the same as a "framebuffer controller driver" or > > whatever you would call it. B

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-27 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > (adding V4L ML to CC and preserving the complete reply for V4L readers) > > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jaya Kumar wrote: > >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski >> wrote: >> > Problem: Currently the standard way to pro

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.05.2010 08:44, schrieb Hiremath, Vaibhav: >> V4L(2) video output vs. framebuffer. >> >> Problem: Currently the standard way to provide graphical output on various >> (embedded) displays like LCDs is to use a framebuffer driver. The >> interface is well supported and widely adopte

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-27 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jaya Kumar wrote: > You've raised the MIPI-DSI issue. It is a good area to focus the > discussion on for fbdev minded people and one that needs to be > resolved soon so that we don't get dozens of host controller specific > mipi display panel drivers. I had seen that omap2 fbd

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-27 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > (adding V4L ML to CC and preserving the complete reply for V4L readers) > > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jaya Kumar wrote: > >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski >> wrote: > Ok, let me explain what exactly I meant. Abov

RE: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-27 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Hiremath, Vaibhav wrote: > > OTOH V4L2 has a standard video output driver support, it is not very > > widely used, in the userspace I know only of gstreamer, that somehow > > supports video-output v4l2 devices in latest versions. But, being a part > > of the v4l2 subsystem, th

Re: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
(adding V4L ML to CC and preserving the complete reply for V4L readers) On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski > wrote: > > Problem: Currently the standard way to provide graphical output on various > > (embedded) displays like LCDs is to

RE: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver

2010-05-26 Thread Hiremath, Vaibhav
> -Original Message- > From: linux-fbdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-fbdev- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Guennadi Liakhovetski > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:40 PM > To: linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Idea of a v4l -> fb interface driver