On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 02:31:27PM -0600, Adam Ford wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/04/2016 12:40 PM, Adam Ford wrote:
> >> Since there are a few different LogicPD Display Panel options,
> >> this patch creates two dtsi files which can be included based on
> >> which display panel is available.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >
> > Dumb question: any reason we cannot do this as device tree overlays?
>
> There was a whole different discussion on a different thread about the
> desire to move display stuff to the bootloader and device tree and
> keep it out of userspace and the kernel. I am just doing what I
> thought the outcome was. Tomi and Tony might have a different
> opinion. I thought by doing this, it would make it easy for people to
> pick and choose which (if any LPD display they have and I tried to do
> it in a similar fashion to how the SMC911x Ethernet dtsi file was done
> which allows it to be included by a vareity of different boards.
>
> adam
What is the 'official' word on overlay support in mainline kernels these
days? I need to at least attempt to backport this to linux-3.14 and trying
to bring along overlays as well seems like an excercise in futility.
Another issue with overlays is you might want to display a progress screen
in the framebuffer right away on boot, how is this handled with overlays?
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