Re: [PATCHv0 1/1] fbdev: add Intel FPGA FRAME BUFFER driver

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 09:16:19 EST


> AIUI, we're not taking new FB drivers. This should be a DRM driver
> instead.

Yes - clone one of the dumb DRM drivers, or if you've got any little bits
of acceleration (even rolling the display) then it's possibly worth
accelerating for text mode.

> > +- max-width: The width of the framebuffer in pixels.
> > +- max-height: The height of the framebuffer in pixels.
> > +- bits-per-color: only "8" is currently supported
>
> These are not h/w properties.

How are the max ones not hardware properties ?

Alan