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Embedded developers still need fbdev. There are lots of display-enabled SoCs that don't have or need a GPU.

• zozbot234 6y ago
  But even then, not every display-enabled SoC is well modeled as a dumb framebuffer. The Raspberry Pi itself provides hardware overlays, and it's quite problematic to expose them under that kind of model. The DRM infrastructure seems to be a lot more general and flexible.
  • joezydeco 6y ago
    I wouldn't recommend an RPi for product development. There are better SoCs, like i.MX, with documented graphics pipelines and graphic/video/camera overlays that are easy to use.
    • jschwartzi 6y ago
      Incidentally, i.MX6 is an example of using the Linux fbdev with hardware acceleration.