On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:01 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:27 AM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers
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> == Summary ==
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> This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev)
> drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm
> driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer.
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I'd like to see this coupled with the addition of a flag so we can
change "basic graphics mode" to force this. There's already a proposed
patch series upstream for this[1], so I think this isn't too hard to
achieve.
Agreed. I've set up a COPR that has a kernel build with the needed
config changes and the patches you mentioned. In case someone wants to
give a try to this:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/javierm/simpledrm/
This would unblock closing the remaining gaps on the X11->Wayland
transition, since Mutter doesn't support fbdev for Wayland, and KWin's
Wayland session doesn't work with fbdev on our kernel for some reason.
Indeed, I think that using simpledrm would be an improvement over efifb.
Best regards,
Javier