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From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 6/6] video: fb: vt8500: Convert framebuffer drivers to standardized binding
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:25:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <515AB229.4050204@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364878200-26343-7-git-send-email-linux@prisktech.co.nz>

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On 2013-04-02 07:50, Tony Prisk wrote:
> Now that a display timing binding is available, convert our almost identical
> binding to use the standard binding.
> 
> This patch converts the vt8500 and wm8505 framebuffer drivers and
> associated dts/dtsi files to use the standard binding as defined in
> bindings/video/display-timing.txt.
> 
> There are two side-effects of making this conversion:
> 
> 1) The fb node should now be in the board file, rather than the soc file as
> the display-timing node is a child of the fb node.
> 
> 2) We still require a bits per pixel property to initialize the framebuffer
> for the different lcd panels. Rather than including this as part of the
> display timing, it is moved into the framebuffer node.

This means that the boards using the current DT bindings won't work with
a kernel with these patches, right? Is that ok?

I don't have any idea how strict we should be with DT bindings in
keeping compatibility...

 Tomi



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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02  4:49 [PATCHv2 0/6] fb: vt8500: patches for 3.10 Tony Prisk
2013-04-02  4:49 ` [PATCHv2 1/6] video: vt8500: Make wmt_ge_rops optional Tony Prisk
2013-04-02 10:32   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-04-02  4:49 ` [PATCHv2 2/6] video: vt8500: Remove unused platform_data/video-vt8500lcdfb.h Tony Prisk
2013-04-02  4:49 ` [PATCHv2 3/6] video: vt8500: Correct descriptions in video/Kconfig Tony Prisk
2013-04-02  4:49 ` [PATCHv2 4/6] drivers/video/wm8505fb.c: use devm_ functions Tony Prisk
2013-04-02  4:49 ` [PATCHv2 5/6] video: vt8500: Adjust contrast in wm8505 framebuffer driver Tony Prisk
2013-04-02  4:50 ` [PATCHv2 6/6] video: fb: vt8500: Convert framebuffer drivers to standardized binding Tony Prisk
2013-04-02 10:25   ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2013-04-02 10:41     ` Alexey Charkov
2013-04-02 11:50       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-04-02 18:18         ` Tony Prisk

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