[OE-core] [PATCH 05/10] weston-init: use the drm backend rather than fbdev one

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 09:22, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> \perhaps then make this chage such thst it only affects the
>> architecture you have tested.
>
>
> Fbdev backend is not documented, and there is no guarantee by upstream
> that it will work. You wouldn’t want to use it on actual targets either as
> it has no hw acceleration support. I think the change should apply to all,
> we should test standard drm/kms code paths everywhere and fix/report issues
> as needed.
>

The issue with qemumips in particular is that it is still using cirrus for
the graphics card, which has been superseded by '-vga std' for a long time:
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/

If that is switched, then fbdev backend should be no longer necessary just
like in qemux86_64.

Alex
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