Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Fri Dec 09 2016 - 03:16:08 EST


On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 08:43:13AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 08:23 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > From memory, David claimed you cannot directly work on the fb with a "proper"
> >
> > DRM driver. Maybe I misunderstood but then the DRM shines by its complete
> > absence of useful documentation
>
> That sentence should have been in the past, it does look like
> documentation has been landing in the tree this year ! yay ! I'll go
> off read it.

We've been building up that documentation for years now, not sure where
exactly you've looked in the past ;-)

And to make sure you're looking at the right stuff: Please run

$ make DOCBOOKS="" htmldocs

and then look at Documentation/output/gpu. Otherwise all the kerneldoc
stuff isn't pulled in, and a lot of the overview sections (not just
abi/struct docs) are in there.

And if something looks fishy or doesn't make sense, please raise it here
or on #dri-devel on freenode so that we can improve the docs.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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