[PATCH 06/21] ARM: OMAP: overo: use new display drivers

Archit Taneja archit at ti.com
Tue Jul 30 02:21:30 EDT 2013


Hi,

On Friday 26 July 2013 12:38 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Use the new display drivers for OMAP3 Overo board.
>
> The new OMAP display drivers were merged for 3.11, and we can now change
> the board files to use the new ones and phase out the old ones.
>
> Note that the LCD add-on boards for lcd43 and lcd35 use the same GPIOs
> for the panels. This means that both panel devices cannot be probed at
> the same time.
>
> DT will handle this correctly, i.e. the DT data will contain the panel
> device only for the add-on board that is attached. However, for the
> board file we need a hackish solution: We parse the kernel boot command
> line, and see whether lcd43 or lcd35 is set as a default display, and
> add the given one. Or, if neither is given, default to lcd43.
>

<snip>

>   static struct omap_dss_board_info overo_dss_data = {
> -	.num_devices	= ARRAY_SIZE(overo_dss_devices),
> -	.devices	= overo_dss_devices,
> -	.default_device	= &overo_dvi_device,
> +	.default_display_name = "lcd43",
>   };

The default display previously was the dvi device, if both lcd43 and 
lcd35 are on add-on boards, then we should probably stick to dvi itself, 
right? The hack won't work if dvi is the default device though.

Archit




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