Re: [PATCH] video: ARM CLCD: Added support for FBIOPAN_DISPLAY and virtual y resolution

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Arun Ramamurthy
<arun.ramamurthy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 15-03-02 08:11 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:08:29PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about this... The word "virtual" never works well with
>>> device tree nodes defined as "hardware description".
>>>
>>> I understand what you're doing, but adding this property to the display
>>> controller's node doesn't sound right. How does this describe hardware?
>>> If anywhere, it's more like a job for the panel node?
>>
>>
> I see what you are saying Pawel, I can follow Russell's recommendation of
> adding a RAM size node called max-memory-available or something similar

We've already got a binding for reserved memory regions for this
purpose. And there is also simplefb binding.

Rob
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