Enable Display/Splash on Phycore am335x with barebox 2020.01.0

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Holger,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:36:58AM +0000, Koelle, Holger wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> This week i've tried to enable our Display (which working without
> problems in Linuxkernel 4.19.94) in Barebox without success.
> 
> I've patched the Devicetree similar to am335x-evm.dts with our display
> timings and the other values. But I got no fb0 device or a matching
> driver for the panel/gpu.
> In the drivers section I can't find any driver which matching tilcdc
> and am335x-tilcdc like described in the barebox documentation.
> 
> Of_dump shows that the panel is there, but drvinfo says there is no
> driver.I've tried to use the simple-panel driver but without
> success...
> 
> So my Question :  Is it possible to enable the drm (gpu) unit in
> Barebox 2020.01.0 at the am335x phycore board or is it not supported?

We don't have a framebuffer driver for am335x, so you won't have any
luck getting a picture out of the hardware with barebox. The
simple-panel driver is only for the panel itself, but not for the
framebuffer.

Sascha

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