ARC: [plat-hsdk] Switch DisplayLink driver from fbdev to DRM
authorAlexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:19:38 +0000 (13:19 +0300)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:41:43 +0000 (12:41 -0800)
commitc18fc9071762769acb4040cabae45c817aefc537
tree5d674bb6780145e912d6f6326cb26b487ef5097f
parentd0729bc6bee797fb4bcca87583af5adbfe79ecfb
ARC: [plat-hsdk] Switch DisplayLink driver from fbdev to DRM

Currently there're 2 different implementations of the driver for
DisplayLink USB2.0-to-HDMI/DVI adapters: older FBDEV and modern true
DRM.

We initially decided to use FBDEV version just because with it
/dev/fbX is usable from user-space while in DRM version
with DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION user-space cannot draw anything on a real
screen, for more info read [1].

But today /dev/fbX is not that important as more and more software
projects switch to use of DRI (/dev/dri/cardX).

But what's even more important DRM driver allows building of complicated
graphics processing chains. The most important for us is rendering of
3D on a dedicated GPU while outputting video through a simpler
bitstreamer like DisplayLink. So let's use much more future-proof
driver from now on.

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2017-December/159519.html

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
arch/arc/configs/hsdk_defconfig