Rockchip DRM Driver Is Ready With Atomic Mode-Setting Support

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Rockchip DRM Driver Is Ready With Atomic Mode-Setting Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 27 December 2015 at 08:50 PM EST. 1 Comment

The Rockchip DRM driver for supporting the display component of the company's ARM SoCs is now ready with its support for atomic mode-setting.

Mark Yao of Rockchip has sent in the new feature pull request for this DRM driver. The main additions are making use of the atomic API and adding RK3036 VOP support.

For those with supported Rockchip hardware, more details via the pull request with this material that should land for Linux 4.5.

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