[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] tegra: Move tegra20 towards the 'new' display bindings

[Stephen Warren]

On 01/14/2016 01:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> The original tegra20 display driver was written before Linux had device tree
> bindings for display. Since then Linux has developed a robust set of bindings
> covering various aspects of enabling a display.
>
> This series moves closer to those bindings by using the panel and backlight
> as separate drivers. The device tree files for seaboard, ventana and harmony
> thereby become almost the same as Linux.
>
> Unfortunately this breaks the other boards, which will need a similar sync.
> So I'm not sure how easy it will be to accept this series. Still, it seems
> worth sending it out in the hope that board maintainers can help. I have
> kept this series separate so that it can progress separately.

Can't that be handled by placing the new code under an ifdef, so the 
source code can support either the old or the new scheme, then each 
board can be converted over and the ifdef flipped in its per-board 
config file, then the ifdef removed once all boards are converted?