[PATCH] tbs2910: migrate to DM_VIDEO

Soeren Moch smoch at web.de
Sat May 23 17:31:41 CEST 2020



On 23.05.20 17:17, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2020 09:55:48 +0200
> Soeren Moch smoch at web.de wrote:
>
>> On 23.05.20 01:24, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
>>> Migration to DM_VIDEO driver is long overdue, configure it in
>>> board config files. To enable the display set stdout like:
>>>
>>>   setenv stdout serial,vidconsole
>> And this exactly is the problem.
>> There are some users of this board without serial console. They have no
>> chance to set this after upgrading u-boot.
>>
>> What is the reason behind this incompatible change? In other words, why
>> vga cannot be an alias for vidconsole, if this is the preferred name
>> nowadays?
> DM video console driver uses more generic name for the video console.
> As a work-around, an alias exists for 'lcd' name. I've sent a patch
> to also use 'vga' as an alias.
>
Thanks.

I will test both patches for tbs2910.

Soeren


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