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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28: use a fixed framebuffer address
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101181041.00195.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y66i8xel.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>

Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Reilly <marc@cpdesign.com.au> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Marc> Purely out of interest, what is the advantage/necessity for
>  Marc> having the frame buffer at a fixed address?
>
> Presumably to be able to reuse the buffer in Linux for flicker free
> booting.

Yes.

jbe

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17 10:22 i.MX28 patches v2 Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] video stm/mx2x: simplify memory allocation Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] video stm/mx2x: allow to pass in fb memory from platform data Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 17:56   ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] " Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28: use a fixed framebuffer address Sascha Hauer
2011-01-17 10:59   ` Juergen Beisert
2011-01-17 22:49     ` Marc Reilly
2011-01-18  7:48       ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-01-18  9:41         ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
2011-01-17 10:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM i.MX28 tx28 defconfig: enable MMU Sascha Hauer

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