[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 4/4] simplefb: add clock handling code

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:40:09PM +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote:

> It is not clear to me where the hardware resources should be listed in
> DT, being it a simplefb node or part of the actual hardware device node
> properly marked as dynamic boot defaults or something else? It's
> somewhere inbetween hardware and virtual device, and somewhat volatile.
> As far as simplefb is concerned it is a hardware desription of the
> framebuffer, but for a kms driver it's no more than firmware handover of
> boottime settings and ceases to exists once the kms driver have
> reconfigured the hardware.

Is simplefb something that should be in the device tree distinctly in
the first place - shouldn't it be a subset of the functionality of the
video nodes?  It's the same hardware being driven differently.
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