Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Vertical retrace interrupts?

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> > I wonder if people will like having to build the DRM for a framebuffer
> > device... a solution where one component uses the other if it's there,
> > but works without it otherwise, might be better.
> > 
> Yes, your suggestion is better.  I did browse the dri code, and my
> feeling is drm is coded for userspace clients without any usable hooks
> for clients residing in kernel space. I'm still wondering how to access
> DRM services from kernel space.  

I have to agree. For most platforms fbdev is a needed. You could view DRM 
as a power extenstion to fbdev. Well that is how I view it. If we have DRM 
enabled we can enable more features in fbdev.