Re: linux-solo & fb-dri

[David K. <dke...@mm...>]

Thanks Keith.

David
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > David Kesselring wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> My project is to get opengl/mesa on an embedded arm7. I am trying to
> >> begin
> >> with the linux-solo build and the simplest driver which seems to be the
> >> fb-dri. Unfortunately it does not compile. Do any of you have information
> >> about the current status of this driver? Ideally, I would like to modify
> >> things enough to get a software only build without any OS dependencies
> >> (i.e. just dump data to a psuedo-framebuffer).
> >> Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> > David,
> >
> > I'm not sure what the current status of linux-solo/fbdri is, but there
> > are several drivers that are probably even simpler - for instance the
> > driver in mesa/drivers/fbdev.  If you scan through the source in that
> > directory you should get an idea how small a driver can be.  The fbdri
> > is a demonstration of a software-only driver which happens to live
> > within a framework designed for acclerated drivers.
> >
> > The focus of recent development has definitely been the DRI drivers, but
> > it shouldn't be forgotten that the historical mesa drivers are exactly
> > targetted towards the sort of dumb framebuffer device you are
> > describing, and the easiest way to get one is still going to be by
> > looking at one of those old-style drivers.
>
> Ugh.  I've just had a quick check and the fbdev driver hasn't been
> brought up to speed with recent changes either (including build
> changes)...  I'll see if I can't get it running again later tonight.
>
> Keith
>

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