[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] sunxi: video: Add support for Hitachi tx18d42vm LCD panels

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 21:04 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07-01-15 19:59, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 21:05 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hitachi tx18d42vm LCD panels have an onboard controller which needs some
> >> initialization via spi for the panel to become functional as a regular LVDS
> >> panel.
> >
> > This doesn't sound terribly sunxi specific, shouldn't
> > sunxi_lcd_panel_hitachi_tx18d42vm_init be generic but making use of some
> > sort of arch-provided interface for actually talking SPI to the device
> > (which may or may not use the generic SPI infra, as your code comment
> > talked about)?
> 
> You're right it is not sunxi specific, but for now sunxi is the only user
> (I've checked) so this seemed simplest, with the idea that it is always
> much easier to make something properly generic when there is more then one
> user.

I think we are more likely to simply end up with N versions of this code
because no one notices that it already exists under some other name. If
Anatolij is OK with it then I have no objections.

> 
> I guess I should have put something about this in the commit message :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
>