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by jchw 2467 days ago
Even if this is true, isn’t that about drivers and not interfaces? Perhaps I am wrong but I was under the impression that the framebuffer userspace device worked on DRM-based drivers still, just it didn’t use fbdev internally.
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I am not 100% sure either, but I think /dev/fbN does not exist without a fb driver. DRM uses /dev/dri/renderNNN
> DRM uses /dev/dri/renderNNN

It’s /dev/dri/card0 on my device.

DRM has a thing called “dumb framebuffer” which exposes a memory mapped file with the CPU-accessible frame buffer data. See DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB and DRM_IOCTL_MODE_MAP_DUMB IOCTLs. The only inconvenience, some boilerplate is required to find the correct GPU connector, and setup a supported video mode.