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Add an fbdev emulation for SHMEM-based memory managers. The code is similar to fbdev-generic, but does not require an additional shadow buffer for mmap(). Fbdev-shmem operates directly on the buffer object's SHMEM pages. Fbdev's deferred-I/O mechanism updates the hardware state on write operations. The memory pages of GEM SHMEM cannot be detected by fbdefio. Therefore fbdev-shmem implements the .get_page() hook in struct fb_deferred_io. The fbdefio helpers call this hook to retrieve the page directly from fbdev-shmem instead of trying to detect it internally. v3: - clarify on get_page mechanism in commit description (Javier) v2: - use drm_driver_legacy_fb_format() (Geert) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240419083331.7761-9-tzimmermann@suse.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.