From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] tegra: Move tegra20 towards the 'new' display bindings
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:57:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569D4394.8040005@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452803219-16675-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>
On 01/14/2016 01:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> The original tegra20 display driver was written before Linux had device tree
> bindings for display. Since then Linux has developed a robust set of bindings
> covering various aspects of enabling a display.
>
> This series moves closer to those bindings by using the panel and backlight
> as separate drivers. The device tree files for seaboard, ventana and harmony
> thereby become almost the same as Linux.
>
> Unfortunately this breaks the other boards, which will need a similar sync.
> So I'm not sure how easy it will be to accept this series. Still, it seems
> worth sending it out in the hope that board maintainers can help. I have
> kept this series separate so that it can progress separately.
Can't that be handled by placing the new code under an ifdef, so the
source code can support either the old or the new scheme, then each
board can be converted over and the ifdef flipped in its per-board
config file, then the ifdef removed once all boards are converted?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-18 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-14 20:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] tegra: Move tegra20 towards the 'new' display bindings Simon Glass
2016-01-14 20:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] tegra: dts: Sync seaboard device tree file with Linux Simon Glass
2016-01-18 19:32 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-19 2:01 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-14 20:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] video: tegra: Move to using simple-panel and pwm-backlight Simon Glass
2016-01-18 19:43 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-19 2:08 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-19 16:49 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-20 4:33 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-14 20:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] tegra: video: Always use write-through cache on LCD Simon Glass
2016-01-18 20:07 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-20 14:53 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-20 16:18 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-14 20:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] fdt: Drop some unused compatible strings Simon Glass
2016-01-14 20:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] tegra: Move tegra20 towards the 'new' display bindings Lucas Stach
2016-01-14 23:12 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-18 19:52 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-19 1:58 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-19 16:47 ` Stephen Warren
2016-01-20 15:37 ` Thierry Reding
2016-01-20 16:18 ` Simon Glass
2016-01-18 19:57 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2016-01-19 1:58 ` Simon Glass
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