I was expecting something closer to direct framebuffer writes, as is often done in the various write-an-OS articles that get posted here semi-regularly.
I was expecting something closer to direct framebuffer writes, as is often done in the various write-an-OS articles that get posted here semi-regularly.
i on the other hand, just loved the article.
was a bit confused about the segfault stuff mentioned towards the beginning of the article. but got quite quickly disabused of that notion with gdb etc.
KMSDRM is soooo much more fun than X. Truly the way programs were meant to be.
and then once it works u can slap it to ur own OS and avoid the rest of linux too! yay! :')
that is correct, id rather attempt to understand the hdmi protocol before i understand 50 million lines of linux ^.^