Bug#640721: ITP: xf86-video-omap -- X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>
* Package name : xf86-video-omap
Version : 0.0.1~git20110717
Upstream Author : Rob Clark <rob@ti.com>
* URL : https://github.com/robclark/xf86-video-omap
* License : MIT/X
Programming Lang: C
Description : X.Org X server -- OMAP display driver
This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further
description) provides support for OMAP2 and newer devices.
The code depends on omapdrm support in the kernel, which is not
yet mainline.
The driver is still experimental and needs a patched kernel, but
will probably take over omapfb in the long term. The advantages
over omapfb are:
* kernel part supports KMS using GEM
* X driver supports XRandR (no more sysfs magic!)
* 2D EXA acceleration of future OMAP chips (current ones do
not have a 2D accelerator)
* optional 2D and 3D acceleration of current OMAP chips via
non-free PVR libs
* clean code strucutre
The kernel code is available from [0]. I plan to package it as
DKMS package until is merged into the mainline kernel.
[0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-September/014087.html
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