[U-Boot] [U-Boot,3/5] board/BuR/tseries: Add simplefb support

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun May 10 16:08:09 CEST 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:49:37PM +0200, Hannes Petermaier wrote:

> Since the used AM3352 SoC doesn't have GPU it isn't allways necessary to build
> in complete drm-stuff into linux kernel. In very small applications only we use
> the simple-framebuffer.
> 
> So we have 2 use-cases:
> - device operating on drm-driver (let simplefb node disabled)
> - device operating on simplefb-driver (activate simplefb node and reserve mem)
> 
> The decision is made by means of "simplefb" environment variable.
> 
> simplefb = 0
> we don't enable the (maybe) existing simplefb node and all the rest around
> display is up to the linux-kernel. We just disable the backlight, beceause we
> do not want see the flicker during take over of drm-driver.
> 
> simplefb = 1
> we enable the (maybe) existing simplefb node and reserve framebuffers size
> in memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Petermaier <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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