Written by Jaya Kumar. Features:

  • use of defio. This enables it to work transparently with existing userspace fbdev applications, such as Xfbdev. I've been testing it with the unmodified Xfbdev from the beagleboard OE distro.
  • avoiding the use of a backbuffer and keeping memory use low use of URB queuing
  • looking like a typical fbdev driver and using standard edid and screeninfo structures Current disadvantages:

  • No compression or fills, etc - always sends raw pixels Initial announcement and patch at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libdlo/2009-September/000321.html