[PATCH 0/2] OMAP: DSS2: Add new display panel

[Bryan Wu]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Tomi Valkeinen
<tomi.valkeinen at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:43 +0200, ext Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Next patches adds support for the two new LCD panel display used
>> on IGEP boards.
>>
>>  Powertip PH480272T LCD 4.3inch (480x242) display
>>  Seiko 70WVW1TZ3 LCD 7.0inch WVGA (800x480) display
>>
>> Please, consider adding in next merge window.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Enric Balletbo i Serra (2):
>>   OMAP: DSS2: Add Powertip PH480272T display panel
>>   OMAP: DSS2: Add Seiko 70WVW1TZ3 display panel
>
> These both are "dummy" panels, and the driver is basically a copy of the
> existing drivers. I don't think I will merge any more of these, sorry.
>
> What we need is a common driver for all these dummy panels, and the
> driver would contain configurations for all the supported panels. The
> board file would pass the name of the panel used in that board to the
> driver, and the driver would use the configurations for that panel.
>

It looks like that we just need one file name displays.c to do those
generic things and pass the configuration from board files to this
driver, such as timing or other things.

> This has been discussed a few times in l-o list, but I haven't found
> time to implement it and nobody else has done it either.
>

I'm quite happy to do this, thanks,

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