lcdif_power_down() no longer called with DM_VIDEO

Anatolij Gustschin agust at denx.de
Sat Jan 25 23:48:00 CET 2020


Hi Fabio,

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:52:56 -0300
Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Anatolij,
> 
> I noticed that after mxsfb has been converted to DM the
> lcdif_power_down() function is no longer called.
> 
> This causes issues in the kernel, where the Linux logo sometimes
> appears in the incorrect position, for example. I see this issue on a
> imx6ul-evk board.
> 
> If I do the same steps of U-Boot lcdif_power_down() inside the mxsfb
> driverl I can make the logo to always appear in the correct position,
> but in order to avoid regressions when booting existing kernels I
> think that lcdif_power_down() still needs to be called when DM_VIDEO
> is selected.
> 
> Not sure how to do this cleanly though.
> 
> Any suggestions?

We must use DM_FLAG_OS_PREPARE driver flag to tell DM to actually
invoke the driver's remove() callback. It will run mxs_remove_common()
then and this should fix the problem. I've just sent a patch.

--
Anatolij


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