From: Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
To: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:15:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804141525.GC4256@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470319400-14625-1-git-send-email-noralf@tronnes.org>
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 04:03:18PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>
> I have tested simpledrm on a Raspberry Pi B+ with U-boot setting up the
> framebuffer and producing this node:
>
> framebuffer@1e887000 {
> compatible = "simple-framebuffer";
> reg = <0x1e887000 0x36c600>;
> format = "r5g6b5";
> width = <1824>;
> height = <984>;
> stride = <3648>;
> status = "okay";
> };
>
> I have only tested with fbcon and modetest (XR24,RG16).
Please do not make the same mistake as simplefb in making this purely a
rpifb. Know that you will need some power and clock management for
properly free devices that do not depend on a binary only RTOS which
does _everything_ behind our backs.
Cfr this useless, endless and ridiculous discussion:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/279071.html
Luc Verhaegen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 14:03 [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 17:05 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 17:12 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm: simpledrm: add fbdev fallback support Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:15 ` Luc Verhaegen [this message]
2016-08-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 15:34 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 15:44 ` David Herrmann
2016-08-04 15:59 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 17:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 18:08 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-04 16:58 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 18:12 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-05 7:18 ` Hans de Goede
2016-08-04 14:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 17:30 ` Noralf Trønnes
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