newbie question: location of frame buffer driver for imx27

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 10:27:36 EST 2011


Hi Jürgen,

2011/2/16 Jürgen Lambrecht <J.Lambrecht at televic.com>:
> Hello,
>
> we have the Freescale IMX27-PDK demo kit. Along with it, we got the source
> code for the linux kernel version 2.6.22, and a lot of patches.
> Also for the video part, there are a lot of patches, creating a
> /drivers/video/mxc subdirectory.
> In the linux sources 2.6.37, I only find 2 files: mx3fb.c (imx3x i guess)
> and imxfb.c.
> When we try to compile linux for the imx27 (with the latest ltib) there are
> no framebuffers under devices.
>
> Do I still need to patch linux/drivers/video for the imx27, or should it
> work fine like it is?
> (and if so, what do I do wrong ;-)

Framebuffer support for MX27 is available at: drivers/video/imxfb.c

You can also take a look at arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx27ads.c to see an
example of a MX27 based board with framebuffer support.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam



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