[U-Boot-Users] framebuffer drivers without modesetting support?

[Harald Welte]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:47:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <20080706164321.GD20299 at prithivi.gnumonks.org> you wrote:
> > 
> > I was wondering if u-boot would also accept the merge of a framebuffer
> > driver that doesn't allow runtime mode-setting.
> 
> What makes you think that would be a problem?

That there is no infrastructure (at leaste I've not seen one) for a
driver to cleanly indicate that it doesn't support modesetting.   So
what do we do? Just silently ignore calls to change the video mode?

> And in U-Boot there are some frame buffer drivers that are completely
> fixed for a specific configuration, too.

good.

> What exactly was your problem?

I didn't want to submit a driver that doesn't implement the
standard/full interface of a framebuffer driver inside u-boot without
asking whether that was actually ok.

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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