[PATCH/RFC 0/6] staging: board: armadillo800eva: Board staging for sh_mobile_lcdc_fb

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Apr 3 12:35:22 PDT 2015


Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2015 14:41:57 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> This RFC patch series adds board staging support for r8a7740/armadillo.
>> For now this supports only the frame buffer device for the on-board LCD.
>
> I've started adding DT support to the shmob-lcdc driver, but I have no board
> to test it on. My Armadillo is gone, and KZM9G is unusable with DT + LCDC at
> the moment as the LCDC interrupt is connected to the legacy interrupt
> controller only, not the GIC. Would you be able to test a patch set ? And if

Sure, I can test your patches on Armadillo.

> you want to implement support for the KZM9G legacy interrupt controller in DT,
> please go for it :-)

Do we need the LCDC interrupt? ;-)

Anyway, the display of my kzm9g is broken, so I never had the joy of
seeing its marvellous graphics.

>>       - sh-mobile-hdmi/sh_mobile_lcdc_fb.1 (this seems to be broken in
>>       -legacy?)
>
> HDMI is broken in legacy, we can thus drop it.

In addition, clk-r8a7740 lacks support for the non-standard register layout of
HDMICKCR.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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