imx25: How to get frame buffer device in a system using device tree

Matthias Weißer m.weisser.m at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 02:31:01 EDT 2013


Hi Fabio

2013/7/5 Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Matthias Weißer <m.weisser.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the links. That made some things clearer for me. But I am
>> still a bit confused about the driver (imxfb.c) itself. From what I
>> can see it is not dt aware as there is no of_device_id structure with
>> the compatible entries. I think I have to add dt support to the
>> framebuffer driver. Am I right?
>
> Yes, you need to apply this one:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fbdev&m=136956466617736&w=2

OK. Done that and it works like a charm. Thanks a lot.

> I thought it has already been applied, but it has not reached mainline yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabio Estevam

Regards
Matthias



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