Re: The old omapfb support

[Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>]

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:45 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:41 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:34 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:30 +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: 
> > > > > But this again reminded me of the mess of having two display drivers,
> > > > > the old omapfb and the new DSS2. Many of the OMAP2 boards using the old
> > > > > driver should be quite easy to port to DSS2, with the exception of N800.
> > > > > DSS2 doesn't support OMAP1, so there's not much that can be done with
> > > > > those boards currently.
> > > 
> > > > Yeh we can just make old omapfb depends on ARCH_OMAP1.
> > > 
> > > As he said, the old omapfb code is used on n8x0, which is OMAP2.
> > 
> > But as I also said, the old OMAP2 panel drivers can be ported to the new
> > DSS driver. I just mentioned N800 because the panel driver for N800 is
> > rather difficult to port and will require more work than the other OMAP2
> > panel drivers.
> 
> So if you first port the stuff and then add the depends-on OMAP1, I'm
> fine with it.

Does the display even work on N8x0 with mainline kernel? I don't see any
code for it in the board file.

 Tomi



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