[PATCH V2 1/2] ARM: bcm2835: add simple framebuffer to device tree

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu May 30 00:10:11 EDT 2013


On 04/03/2013 08:40 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Place a template simple-framebuffer device into the RPi device tree. The
> bootloader is expected to fill in all the parameters at boot time.
> Hence, disable the device by default, so if the bootloader doesn't do
> this, the device isn't activated with invalid parameters.

In the end, I dropped this patch, and decided to just have U-Boot create
this DT node itself from scratch, just like Olof did for the Samsung ARM
Chromebook.

I have however applied patch 2/2, to enable the simplefb driver in
bcm2835_defconfig.



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