xf86-video-armsoc, Mali and exynos4

[Daniel Drake]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> Fwiw, I am happily using a derivative of the standard fbdev driver on my
> sunxi and exynos based devices. Namely fbturbo which is being done by
> Siarhei Siamashka. For sunxi, it includes some knowledge about the
> strangely implemented display engine, for exynos, it currently speeds up
> some operations using neon assembler.

Yes, it does work reasonably well. Unfortunately this does not support
xrandr resolution switching though, which is now made available "for
free" by the underlying exynos_drm display driver.

Maybe we could add KMS support to fbturbo, I was just interested in
exploring things from the armsoc side, as the original announcement
talks about the combination of X/Mali integrated with exynos, DRM and
KMS. http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-May/031250.html
Maybe that level of integration has not yet been reached in public
code though :(

Thanks,
Daniel