Hi Thomas, On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:22:09 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> > Wut. We have like 20+ small atomic drivers nowdays. >> >> That's fast! Only two weeks ago you said: >> >> | Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of >> | them floating around in various places ... > > You're not talking about the same thing I believe. > > When Daniel says "small atomic drivers", he talks about the relatively > small DRM drivers for SoC display controllers, such as the ones you can > find in ARM SoCs. > > When you say "small driver", you're thinking about drivers for I2C or > SPI connected displays.
No, I wasn't thinking about I2C or SPI connected displays, but about simple dumb memory-mapped frame buffers, which is what fbdev was initially developed for. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds