Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread nerdopolis
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:09:44 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:46:02 -0500 > nerdopolis wrote: > > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:55:15 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 > > > Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > > > Hi,

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread makepost
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 Pekka Paalanen wrote: keep it around for some more, but the simple fact that some hardware exists that does not have a working DRM driver is not enough Fbdev worked out of the box on my Bay Trail system, but DRM kept freezing where only SysRq helped. It see

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 22:46 -0500, nerdopolis wrote: > Well, TBH, It's just my quazi-distribution Live CD that I still maintain... > It falls back to the Framebuffer on systems (or seats) that don't have > Kernel Mode Setting. The number of users now probably is low... I think the biggest class

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-23 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:46:02 -0500 nerdopolis wrote: > On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:55:15 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 > > Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > do you actually have a use case for that? It's ok if you do, we can > > >

Re: Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-22 Thread nerdopolis
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:55:15 AM EST Pekka Paalanen wrote: > Let's make the title more catchy, so that people who care about fbdev > would notice. > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 > Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:30:52 -0500 > > nerdopolis wrote: > > > > > O

Fbdev-backend removal from Weston (Re: Upcoming release)

2019-01-22 Thread Pekka Paalanen
Let's make the title more catchy, so that people who care about fbdev would notice. On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:17:32 +0200 Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:30:52 -0500 > nerdopolis wrote: > > > On Friday, January 18, 2019 5:20:40 PM EST Derek Foreman wrote: > > > Also, I'd like to