[PATCH] ARM: mx28: Add LCD pinmux

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sun Jun 24 09:43:53 EDT 2012


Dear Fabio Estevam,

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > But the BPP should corelate with the number of connected data pins. Or do
> > you have any counter-argument? And besides, it's much easier to
> > understand like that.
> 
> This is not true. The pixel depth (bpp) tells how the bits are paked
> in the memory and does not correlate with the number of physically
> connected pins. For example: you can have a 16 pin LCD and decide to
> display it as 16bpp or 32bpp.
> 
> So keeping the bpp in the name of these data structure is not correct
> as you are only describing the physical connection.

Ah that's right ... makes sense now. Will respin the patch.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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