[U-Boot] Beaglebone LCD support in U-Boot?

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Oct 20 21:52:30 CEST 2013


Hi Tom,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:31:42PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any LCD driver for the Beaglebone?
>
> Kinda.  drivers/video/da8xx-fb.c covers the IP block in question, and
> you can see it in use on the pxm2 and rut am335x boards from Siemens.
>
> Some amount of work shall be needed to say "Oh, I'm a Beaglebone White
> with LCD cape", or whatever display you're hacking in ;)

Thanks - I started it but didn't finish - if I get time in the next
few weeks I'll try again. I see that the kernel has pretty
comprehensive 'cape' support in the device tree. It would presumably
be quite a bit of work to plumb that into U-Boot.

Regards,
Simon


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