Another Hisilicon DRM Driver Is In The Works
With Linux 4.7 there are four new DRM drivers! But that flow of new DRM/KMS drivers, largely for display hardware on ARM SoCs, is not over.
Among several patches floating around for new DRM hardware enablement is another DRM driver for Hisilicon. In Linux 4.7 there's the Hisilicon Kirin DRM driver while being worked on for a future kernel release is now a Hisilicon Hibmc DRM driver.
This new Hisilicon DRM driver is for supporting the Hibmc baseboard management controller and these initial patches just provide basic display subsystem support for their display engine and VDAC (Video Digital-to-Analog Converter). This Hibmc driver in its current form is just under two thousand lines of code.
More details on the Hibmc DRM driver in its current form can be found via the V2 patch series on dri-devel.
Among several patches floating around for new DRM hardware enablement is another DRM driver for Hisilicon. In Linux 4.7 there's the Hisilicon Kirin DRM driver while being worked on for a future kernel release is now a Hisilicon Hibmc DRM driver.
This new Hisilicon DRM driver is for supporting the Hibmc baseboard management controller and these initial patches just provide basic display subsystem support for their display engine and VDAC (Video Digital-to-Analog Converter). This Hibmc driver in its current form is just under two thousand lines of code.
More details on the Hibmc DRM driver in its current form can be found via the V2 patch series on dri-devel.
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