From: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
To: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: lo-ml <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: N8x0 display support (was: Re: The old omapfb support)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:05:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304111145.30575.14.camel@maggie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304111048.30575.12.camel@maggie>
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 23:04 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:33 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > So, my question is: what are the uses of N800's display with the
> > mainline kernel? Are we happy with just having basic display
> > functionality, or do people need all the features in the older blizzard
> > driver?
>
> Well, not sure.
> The OpenWRT project runs an X server on the n810.
> It does so by using the X.org "omapfb" driver module, which
> accesses the hardware through /dev/fb0.
> http://git.pingu.fi/xf86-video-omapfb/
>
> So we basically need that to work in one way or another.
> Another thing that we require is turning off the display for
> power saving reasons. We currently do this through
> FBIOBLANK ioctl with parameters FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN/FB_BLANK_UNBLANK.
> (The backlight is turned off by other means with the device asic)
Oh and we currently run the framebuffer in auto-update mode.
I don't have any idea what would be needed to get it working
in manual update mode.
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Greetings Michael.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 12:20 The old omapfb support Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-19 12:30 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-19 12:34 ` Michael Büsch
2011-04-19 12:41 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-19 12:45 ` Michael Büsch
2011-04-20 8:06 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-20 11:18 ` Michael Büsch
2011-04-20 11:31 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-20 11:35 ` Michael Büsch
2011-04-29 13:33 ` N8x0 display support (was: Re: The old omapfb support) Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-29 14:08 ` Jarkko Nikula
2011-04-29 21:04 ` Michael Büsch
2011-04-29 21:05 ` Michael Büsch [this message]
2011-04-30 6:01 ` Tomi Valkeinen
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