From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753485Ab3GIVRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:17:13 -0400 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:58053 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753135Ab3GIVRL (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:17:11 -0400 Message-ID: <51DC7DD4.7080001@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:17:08 -0600 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Herrmann CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data References: <1372940714-12470-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> <1372940714-12470-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1372940714-12470-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/04/2013 06:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb > for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support > so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the > parameters via plain old platform-data. > > This also removes the OF dependency as it is not needed. The headers > provide proper dummies for the case OF is disabled. > > Furthermore, we move the FORMAT-definitions to the common platform header > so initialization code can use it to transform "struct screen_info" to > the right format-name. Patches 1 and 5, Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren