[U-Boot] [PATCH] LCD: Add an option to skip registration as an stdio output

[Stephane Ayotte]

Hello Anatolij,

Does this patch have a chance to get to the release even if it has missed
RC1?

Thanks,

Stephane

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:14 AM, <sayotte.tyco at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stephane Ayotte <sayotte at tycoint.com>
>
> This patch adds an option to skip the registration of LCD stdio ouput for
> boards that want to show different text on LCD than on serial output (or
> the active stdout selected by the environment variable).
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Ayotte <sayotte at tycoint.com>
> ---
>
> This implementation is similar to what has been added to cfb_console.c by
> Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> per commit 6cc7ba9e on 05/15/2009
>
> I am sending this patch using <sayotte.tyco at gmail.com>
> as our regular smtp server <sayotte at tycoint.com> causes patch issues.
>
>  common/lcd.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/common/lcd.c b/common/lcd.c
> index d29308a..ed68be9 100644
> --- a/common/lcd.c
> +++ b/common/lcd.c
> @@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ __weak int lcd_get_size(int *line_length)
>         return *line_length * panel_info.vl_row;
>  }
>
> +/*
> + * Implement a weak default function for boards that optionally
> + * need to skip the lcd console initialization.
> + */
> +__weak int board_lcd_console_skip(void)
> +{
> +       /* As default, don't skip cfb init */
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  int drv_lcd_init(void)
>  {
>         struct stdio_dev lcddev;
> @@ -152,6 +162,9 @@ int drv_lcd_init(void)
>
>         lcd_init(lcd_base);
>
> +       if (board_lcd_console_skip())
> +               return 0;
> +
>         /* Device initialization */
>         memset(&lcddev, 0, sizeof(lcddev));
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>