Re: No more new fbdev drivers, please

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Kamil Lulko <kamil.lulko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All
>> new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.
>
>
> What about no-mmu platforms? DRM has a big fat MMU dependency in the
> kconfig, is there a way to write DRM driver for such devices?

That would indeed be a showstopper...

I dropped the dependency, and gave it a quick try for m68knommu.
Seems like DRM currently needs pgprot_writecombine() and pte_wrprotect().
Probably that can be fixed easily.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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