[Lenny400] [Letux-kernel] JZ4730/Minibook framebuffer driver updates

[Paul Boddie]

On Saturday 9. September 2017 22.21.44 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> > Am 09.09.2017 um 01:24 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
> > 
> > And so, I took some clues from another place:
> > 
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c
> 
> Yes, this is more or less a basic decision if we want to use drm or fbdev.
> 
> For OMAP we had to switch X11 to omapdrm because fbdev support by X11
> became flaky.
> 
> Anyways it is something that can certainly be converted later. It is even
> possible to support both in the same kernel tree. Giving some code
> duplication.
> 
> OMAP still can support fbdev but is less tested.

Fortunately, I was only looking for inspiration here. I haven't really looked 
at what that code does: it just happened to show me what I might be doing to 
get the device tree structure I wanted.

[...]

> Applied fine. I just had a minor issue with merging things together, but
> have solved as well.
> 
> Here:
> 
> http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=heads

I'm still figuring out my workflow, but I aim to only send patches that apply 
to your branches.

> > I hope these are steps in the right direction!
> 
> Testing will finally show but IMHO the direction is ok :)

Well, I already found something wrong with that code: the framebuffer 
structures use picoseconds to measure the pixel clock whereas other structures 
use hertz or kilohertz. Attached is a patch to fix that.

Paul
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