On 04/08/2013 06:16 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:39:43 -0600 Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> A simple frame-buffer describes a raw memory region that may be rendered >> to, with the assumption that the display hardware has already been set >> up to scan out from that buffer. >> >> This is useful in cases where a bootloader exists and has set up the >> display hardware, but a Linux driver doesn't yet exist for the display >> hardware. >> >> ... >> >> +config FB_SIMPLE >> + bool "Simple framebuffer support" >> + depends on (FB = y) && OF > > It's sad that this simple little thing requires Open Firmware. Could > it be generalised in some way so that the small amount of setup info > could be provided by other means (eg, module_param) or does the > dependency go deeper than that? I wouldn't be at all surprised if others want to feed it platform data rather than parameterizing it through device tree. All my platforms use DT though, so I didn't want to add that support without any user; it'd just be dead code for now. But, if someone wants that, I can certainly code it up or test/review after the change etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
