On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
> If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb
> for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support
> so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the
> paramaters via plain old platform-data.
>
> This also removes the OF dependency as it is not needed. The headers
> provide proper dummies for the case OF is disabled.
>
> Furthermore, we move the FORMAT-definitions to the common platform header
> so initialization code can use it to transform "struct screen_info" to
> the right format-name.
> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h b/include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h
> +/* the framebuffer size and location is available as IORESOURCE_MEM */
> +struct simplefb_platform_data {
> + u32 width;
> + u32 height;
> + u32 stride;
> + char format[64];
> +};
Any reason not to make format:
const char *format;
You should be able to initialize that just as easily in platform code,
either as static data or at runtime, I think.
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