On 05/31/2013 11:12 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 05/26/2013 09:53 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote: >>> The naming scheme of simplefb's mode is precise enough to allow building >>> the mode structure from it instead of using a static list of modes. This >>> patch introduces a function that does this. In case exotic modes that >>> cannot be represented from their name alone are needed, the static list >>> of modes is still available as a backup. ... >> As such, we should either: >> >> a) Just add new entries into the format array that already exists in the >> driver. Given David's response, this might be simplest. > > I think so too. Is this even needed? Do we have any users of the newer formats > or is it just someone trying to feature-creep this driver to make the "simple" > part of the name inaccurate? :) Alex is working on board support for a new NVIDIA board, where IIRC the bootloader sets up some 32-bit ARGB format for the panel. -- 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
