From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:22:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] video: ARM CLCD: add support of an optional GPIO to enable panel Message-Id: <20170102142228.GI14217@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> List-Id: References: <20161221032717.13154-1-vz@mleia.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 09:23:59AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote: > > > The changeset contains a number of cleanups, changed semantics of > > init_panel() callback, which allows to simplify getting of panel > > properties from panel device tree node, and a handling of optional > > "enable-gpios" panel property, the latter is described in > > display/panel/panel-dpi.txt device tree binding documentation, but > > it has been unsupported by the ARM CLCD driver. > > > > Vladimir Zapolskiy (4): > > video: ARM CLCD: sort included headers out alphabetically > > video: ARM CLCD: use panel device node for panel initialization > > video: ARM CLCD: use panel device node for getting backlight and mode > > video: ARM CLCD: add support of an optional GPIO to enable panel > > As you may have seen Tomi has stepped down as FBDEV maintainer and > this subsystem is now orphaned. > > I guess Andrew Morton merges patches for it in this case, he usually does. > > But what we should actually do is create a new DRM driver for CLCD > in drivers/gpu/drm/arm/clcd* > > It's maybe not a small undertaking :( > > But in case you're interested in the job, I will pitch in and test the result > on all ARM reference designs plus Nomadik. A DRM driver for it would probably be a good idea, but dealing with all the weird and wonderful connection arrangements may not be that easy... -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.