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From: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org>
To: "Jason.Jin@freescale.com" <Jason.Jin@freescale.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] video/fsl: make the diu driver work without platform hooks
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:35:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53339C96.3070406@tabi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6883c3f759a4544936acec5dc7e542b@BLUPR03MB373.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

Jason.Jin@freescale.com wrote:
>>>>> However, the DIU is already initialized in u-boot and we can
>>>>> rely on the settings in u-boot for corenet platform,
>>>
>>> I don't like that at all.
> [Jason Jin-R64188] What's the potential issue of this? Most of the
> IPs need the platform initialization in u-boot. For example, the
> hwconfig in u-boot used for board specific settings for most
> platform.

The potential problem is that it's not stable.  Power management breaks 
your code.

I won't NACK your patch, but it feels like a band-aid rather than a real 
solution.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26 17:41 [PATCH 1/2] video/fsl: make the diu driver work without platform hooks Jason Jin
2014-03-26 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] video/fsl: Fix the sleep function for FSL DIU module Jason Jin
2014-03-26 18:50   ` Timur Tabi
2014-03-27  3:42     ` Jason.Jin
2014-03-27  3:46       ` Timur Tabi
2014-03-27  3:57         ` Jason.Jin
2014-03-26 18:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] video/fsl: make the diu driver work without platform hooks Timur Tabi
2014-03-27  3:30   ` Jason.Jin
2014-03-27  3:35     ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2014-03-27  3:38       ` Jason.Jin

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