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

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 13:06:49 EDT 2013


Hi Matthias,

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Matthias Weißer <m.weisser.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Great, care to submit patches for adding mx25 fb support?



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