Re: [RFC PATCH arm: initial TI-Nspire support]

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Apr 09 2013 - 07:23:35 EST


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 April 2013, Daniel Tang wrote:
>> Here's an updated patch that enables support for the LCD.
>>
>> I looked into drivers/video/of_display_timing.c but it doesn't have the fields to describe the
>> PL11x specific options needed in struct clcd_panel. At the moment, it is implemented by
>> hardcoding the values in the kernel and using the device tree to select the correct
>> configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Tang <dt.tangr@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I think you should for now keep the clcd stuff in a separate file,
> since it will be replaced with DT logic eventually. For now, the
> auxdata method is ok, but Linus Walleij might already have thought
> about how pl111 should get all its data from the device tree.

So last thing I heard there was *someone* at ARM working on
device tree support for the PL110/PL111, so I just don't know who
this was.

But I bet Pawel knows, because it will be needed for all
ARM reference designs.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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