[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/3] video: add an option for video simplefb via DT
Icenowy Zheng
icenowy at aosc.io
Wed Sep 13 02:17:50 UTC 2017
Add an option to indicate that the video driver should setup a SimpleFB
node that passes the video framebuffer initialized by U-Boot to the
operating system kernel.
Currently only the Allwinner DE2 driver uses this option.
Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
---
drivers/video/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig
index 082cc4a528..e4e71763f5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig
@@ -601,4 +601,14 @@ config VIDEO_DW_HDMI
rather requires a SoC-specific glue driver to call it), it
can not be enabled from the configuration menu.
+config VIDEO_DT_SIMPLEFB
+ bool "Enable SimpleFB support for passing framebuffer to OS"
+ depends on VIDEO_DE2
+ default y
+ help
+ Enables the code to pass the framebuffer to the kernel as a
+ simple framebuffer in the device tree.
+ The video output is initialized by U-Boot, and kept by the
+ kernel.
+
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