From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Ramamurthy Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:31:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: ARM CLCD: Added support for FBIOPAN_DISPLAY and virtual y resolution Message-Id: <54F65251.4040006@broadcom.com> List-Id: References: <1424898082-1522-1-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <1424898082-1522-2-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <1425312509.3092.7.camel@arm.com> <20150302161122.GP8656@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <54F4B57F.3030306@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rob Herring Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Pawel Moll , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-fbdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Dmitry Torokhov , Anatol Pomazau , Jonathan Richardson , Scott Branden , Ray Jui , "bcm-kernel-feedback-list-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org" On 15-03-02 03:22 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Arun Ramamurthy > wrote: >> >> >> On 15-03-02 08:11 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:08:29PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not sure about this... The word "virtual" never works well with >>>> device tree nodes defined as "hardware description". >>>> >>>> I understand what you're doing, but adding this property to the display >>>> controller's node doesn't sound right. How does this describe hardware? >>>> If anywhere, it's more like a job for the panel node? >>> >>> >> I see what you are saying Pawel, I can follow Russell's recommendation of >> adding a RAM size node called max-memory-available or something similar > > We've already got a binding for reserved memory regions for this > purpose. And there is also simplefb binding. > Rob, I am not sure what binding you are referring to, could you be more specific? Also how does the simplefb bindings apply to me considering that is a separate driver? Thanks > Rob >