From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:17:08 -0600 Message-ID: <51DC7DD4.7080001@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1372940714-12470-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> <1372940714-12470-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1372940714-12470-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Herrmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 07/04/2013 06:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb > for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support > so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the > parameters via plain old platform-data. > > This also removes the OF dependency as it is not needed. The headers > provide proper dummies for the case OF is disabled. > > Furthermore, we move the FORMAT-definitions to the common platform header > so initialization code can use it to transform "struct screen_info" to > the right format-name. Patches 1 and 5, Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren