On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:18:22PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, how does this work in practice? How does the > > bootloader create this entry? Does it scan the DT to see which clocks > > the real hardware device references and then simply copies them to the > > simplefb node? > > > > Thierry > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-sunxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg06619.html That looks like a royal pain. Again, I think it'd be much simpler (but not less code, unfortunately) to do this on a per-resource basis. That way these low-level firmware drivers in the kernel can stay trivial, keeping the real complexity where they belong: in hardware-specific drivers such as DRM/KMS. Thierry
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