[U-Boot] [RFC] Migrating iMX LCDIF drivers to Driver Model

[Igor Opaniuk]

Hi Anatolij,

Thanks for your feedback!

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:31 PM Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:04:41 +0000
> Igor Opaniuk igor.opaniuk at toradex.com wrote:
> ...
> > So there are 2 questions spinning in my mind:
> > 1) In case if you are maybe aware, if there were any intentions to do
> > this migration before?  (maybe someone asked similar questions or even
> > send some patches, but didn't manage to upstream that; or did similar
> > stuff in some downstream U-boot forks, whatever). Unfortunately I
> > can't any information regarding this in U-boot ML archives .
>
> I'm not aware of any activity migrating this driver to DM_VIDEO.
> Patches welcome.
>
> > 2) Will it be OK if I introduce a brand new mxsfb driver (ported from
> > Linux), which will be used only when U-boot is built with
> > CONFIG_DM_VIDEO enabled? Existing mxsfb will be left as it is, so I
> > can be removed easily when full migration to DM is done for all boards
> > that are using this driver.
>
> I have no objections. However I don't know how big is the Linux mxsfb
> driver, maybe we could reduce not needed code to keep the code size
> smaller.
>
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Thanks!

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