Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hanno Stock <opensou...@hanno-stock.de>
* Package name : evdi Version : 1.x (newest) Upstream Author : DisplayLink (UK) Ltd. * URL : https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi * License : GPL / LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Extensible Virtual Display Interface driver used by DisplayLink The Extensible Virtual Display Interface (EVDI) is a Linux kernel module that enables management of multiple screens, allowing user-space programs to take control over what happens with the image. It is essentially a virtual display you can add, remove and receive screen updates for, in an application that uses the libevdi library. The module and library is part of the DisplayLink Ubuntu development which enables support for DisplayLink USB 3.0 devices on Ubuntu. Please note that this is NOT a complete driver for DisplayLink devices. --------------------------------------------------------------------- A quick glance over the original source seems to indicate that packaging this is simple enough for me. However as I am not a Debian maintainer yet, I am looking for a sponsor and would be open to co-maintainership and contributions. I think this package is useful along the road to supporting DisplayLink. Unfortunately this currently needs an additional closed-source component which would have to be packaged and distributed seperately. Nonetheless I think the evdi concept is useful on its own - therefore it make sense to package this as a regular debian package.
