[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] Allwinner DE2 HDMI SimpleFB support

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:59 AM, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io> wrote:
> This patchset is for Allwinner DE2 HDMI SimpleFB support.
>
> The framebuffer initialized by the Allwinner DE2 driver can be
> passed by to the kernel as simplefb, and this can enable the
> kernel to display graphics without having full DE2 driver.
>
> Add the suppot of simplefb in DE2 code.
>
> The code to find a simplefb with sunxi extension and a suitable
> pipeline is extracted to a new source file in video/sunxi/.
>
> An option is added for device tree simplefb, and furtherly
> other simplefb support code should also be converted to it.

There was a generic simplefb driver recently added [1], is it worth
basing it on that?

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-September/306273.html