[PATCH v2 0/6] BCM2835 / simple framebuffer support

[Andre Heider]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:14:51PM +0100, Andre Heider wrote:
>> Hi Sascha,
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 06:40:49PM +0100, Andre Heider wrote:
>> > And yes, it works if I set fb0.enable=1 and fb0.register_simplefb=1,
>> > both are 0 per default.
>> >
>> > Now I wonder who/where those are supposed to get set? Is that a job for
>> > the runtime environment?
>>
>> if possible I'd like to make the fb work out of the box. Setting these
>> two parameters to default to "1" feels wrong (and I didn't find other
>> drivers to do so). Any suggestions?
>
> Normally the policy is that a framebuffer is not enabled during
> registration. This makes sense because normally the framebuffer doesn't
> contain a useful picture, so users should set a picture and enable the
> framebuffer afterwards to avoid flickering.
>
> In your case the situation is different though. The display hardware is
> already enabled when you enter barebox, right?

Right.

> In this case I suggest
> that you set info->p_enable to true before calling register_framebuffer
> from the bcm2835 driver. This should be the right thing to do since it
> only reflects the hardware status.
>
> Also I think you can set info->register_simplefb to true aswell in the
> bcm2835 driver since on that platform this is probably a sane default.

Ok, easy enough ;)

Thanks,
Andre