imx6 DM_VIDEObroken

[Tim Harvey]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 8:55 AM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I would think the other board maintainers would have raised a red flag
> > > if things broke for their boards, I just haven't tested it in quite
> > > some time for gwventana_*_defconfig.
> >
> > I have just tested wandboard with the top of tree U-Boot and it
> > displays the splash screen correctly.
> >
> > Can you check this commit from Anatolij?
> >
> > commit b2ec22b52d6c1541cabf7103a098e6c80f27637b
> > Author: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
> > Date:   Wed Sep 18 16:55:49 2019 +0200
> >
> >     imx: wandboard: fix splash logo drawing
> >
> >     After mxc_ipuv3 DM_VIDEO conversion showing splash image
> >     doesn't work. Fix this. Also enable white on black console
> >     configuration as it used to be with cfb_console driver.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
> >
>
> Fabio,
>
> Thanks - that was it.
>
> There were a couple of other things needed for dm video conversion
> that were not taken care of back when it was done. Specifically:
> CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN enabled
> CONFIG_CMD_BMP enabled
> splashiamge env var
>
> These were not needed for splash prior to the dm video conversion.
>

One last question on this. I have never used U-Boot vidconsole before.
It does work if I 'setenv stdout serial,videconsole' but if I saveenv
and reboot vidconsole is not enabled. Should I expect it to be or is
it expected that if you want vidconsole you need to do a setenv in
preboot?

Best regards,

Tim