Re: [PATCH] ARM: sun8i: a33: add dts for Q8 tablets with different resolution

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Tue Aug 22 2017 - 16:34:12 EST


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 04:44:30PM +0800, icenowy@xxxxxxx wrote:
> å 2017-08-21 16:40ïMaxime Ripard åéï
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:49:26PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > > Q8 tablets with Allwinner A33 SoC now come with two kind of LCD,
> > > either
> > > 800x480 or 1024x600.
> > >
> > > In order for sun4i-drm to be able to choose correct LCD configuration,
> > > two different device trees should be present, one for a resolution.
> > >
> > > Add stub device trees for two resolutions.
> > >
> > > As the sun4i-drm driver still has some problems to support the LCDs,
> > > the
> > > real LCD device nodes are not added to the device tree files.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > This should be an overlay, ideally applied by the bootloader.
>
> I think this is not suitable for overlay.
>
> The two kind of Q8 tablets are not compatible at all, and they
> should both have a suitable device tree.

How are they not compatible?

Maxime

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