Re: [PATCH 2/2] omap3: devkit8000: Add and use 4.3 inch display

[Daniel Morsing <daniel.morsing@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 13:36 +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Am 12.02.2011 18:02, schrieb Daniel Morsing:
> > This patch adds a generic panel entry for the 4.3 inch display that is
> > sold with the devkit8000 and modifies the board file to use this
> > display.
> > 
> > 
> 
> So only the 4.3 inch display can be used with the devkit8000?
> There are also Devkit8000 with 5.6 and 7 inch displays.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 

Yeah, I'll admit that the patch is a bit one-sided. I couldn't find a
way to specify a board using a class of displays with separate timing
settings.

One way to do it would be to add the settings to modedb, but modedb is
really only for standardized display settings. The other way to do it
would be to add a kernel config for which display you have connected to
the board, but I think that is a bad idea, because it makes everything
more complicated and switching out displays would require recompiling
the kernel.

Maybe Tomi or the fbdev guys have some input on how to best do this?

Regards,
Daniel Morsing