Generic Usb To Vga Driver For Linux

Generic Usb To Vga Driver For Linux

Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trnnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes.

Noralf noted, The reason for calling it Generic is so anyone can make a USB displayadapter against this driver, all thats needed is to add a USB vid:pid.

I was hoping to have someone working on a microcontroller based USB display by now, but unfortunately that has been delayed.

It would have been nice to have a microcontroller implementation to ensure that I havent made things unnecessary difficult to implement.

A video embedded below shows the Generic USB display driver in action with different hostsdevices.

The Linux gadget device driver will serve as the canonical device implementation.

It is added in preparation for future monochrome e-ink displays.

It presents a DRM display device as a USB Display configured through configfs.

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