From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: holgerschurig@gmail.com (Holger Schurig) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:11:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2] drm/panel: simple: Add support for Innolux AT070TN92 In-Reply-To: <20160420134036.GA7470@ulmo.ba.sec> (Thierry Reding's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:40:36 +0200") References: <1461159435-16528-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <20160420134036.GA7470@ulmo.ba.sec> Message-ID: <877ffrp3fc.fsf@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Thierry Reding writes: > Applied, thanks. I once read that this is the recommended way to go, instead of specifying the timings in the device tree. Why is this so? Any new display just increases the .text size of the kernel unnessary. Did this idea stem from the era where bootloaders like Barebox couldn't modify the DT ad-hoc before handing it over to the kernel? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Schurig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/panel: simple: Add support for Innolux AT070TN92 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:11:19 +0200 Message-ID: <877ffrp3fc.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1461159435-16528-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <20160420134036.GA7470@ulmo.ba.sec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160420134036.GA7470@ulmo.ba.sec> (Thierry Reding's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:40:36 +0200") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: Boris Brezillon , Riccardo Bortolato , David Airlie , Nicolas Ferre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Alexandre Belloni , Daniel Vetter , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Thierry Reding writes: > Applied, thanks. I once read that this is the recommended way to go, instead of specifying the timings in the device tree. Why is this so? Any new display just increases the .text size of the kernel unnessary. Did this idea stem from the era where bootloaders like Barebox couldn't modify the DT ad-hoc before handing it over to the kernel?