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Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: ARM CLCD: Added support for FBIOPAN_DISPLAY and
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On 15-03-02 03:22 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Arun Ramamurthy
> <arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 15-03-02 08:11 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:08:29PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure about this... The word "virtual" never works well with
>>>> device tree nodes defined as "hardware description".
>>>>
>>>> I understand what you're doing, but adding this property to the display
>>>> controller's node doesn't sound right. How does this describe hardware?
>>>> If anywhere, it's more like a job for the panel node?
>>>
>>>
>> I see what you are saying Pawel, I can follow Russell's recommendation of
>> adding a RAM size node called max-memory-available or something similar
>
> We've already got a binding for reserved memory regions for this
> purpose. And there is also simplefb binding.
>
Rob, I am not sure what binding you are referring to, could you be more 
specific? Also how does the simplefb bindings apply to me considering 
that is a separate driver? Thanks
> Rob
>