Re: Proposal for a low-level Linux display framework

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:55:37PM -0500, Keith Packard wrote:

I suspect helper functions would be a good model to follow, rather than trying to create a whole new device infrastructure; some of the communication paths aren't easily separable from the underlying output devices.

This. Helper functions make the driver writers life so much easier - if your hw doesn't quite fit the model, you can usually extend functionality with much less fuzz than if there's a full framework. This is also pretty much the reason, why I don't like ttm. -Daniel