[PATCH] arm64: bcm2837 dts: enable bcm2708 frambuffer driver for the raspberry pi-3

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Mon Aug 14 11:22:41 PDT 2017


VOTARY GITHUB <github.raspberrypi at votarytech.com> writes:

> From 3200cb6fd787390df1bccf1bb1f7a67ca04136fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: VT-Github-Raspberrypi <github.raspberrypi at votarytech.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:57:15 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: bcm2837 dts: enable bcm2708 frambuffer driver for the
>  raspberry pi-3
>
> This fb drivers to make rendering full boot up logs on the screen.
>
> Fixed: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2156

I don't think we should be adding DT nodes for the old, downstream-only
fbdev driver to the upstream tree.  We have nodes already for the open
source driver that directly programs the hardware, which will disable
the firmware's closed-source modesetting interfaces used by bcm2708
fbdev.  For early boot display, the proper solution is simplefb, not a
custom fbdev driver.
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