Re: [PATCH 00/13] Add HD44780 Character LCD support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Linus,

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Note that Linux has other support for HD44780 Character LCDs, but none of
>> it is generic:
>>   - drivers/misc/arm-charlcd.c involves a custom IP block for interfacing
>>     to the LCD controller,
>
> I can move this over to the generic framework if I get some example
> of what needs to be done. At the very least the file should be moved
> over to auxdisplay.

Should be as simple as setting up the ops:

        static const struct charlcd_ops arm_charlcd_ops = {
                .write_cmd      = charlcd_4bit_command,
               .write_cmd_raw4 = wrapper around writel(x,
lcd->virtbase + CHAR_COM),
               .write_data     = charlcd_4bit_char,
        };

and replacing the custom initialization with:

        lcd = charlcd_alloc(sizeof(size(struct arm_charlcd));
        ...
        lcd->ifwidth = 4;
        lcd->width = FIXME;
        lcd->height = 2;
        cd->ops = &arm_charlcd_ops;
        charlcd_register(lcd);

There's no suspend/resume support in the charlcd core yet, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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