RE: [PATCH 1/2] OMAP3EVM: Made backlight GPIO default state to off

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomi Valkeinen [mailto:tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:25 PM
> To: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; tony@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] OMAP3EVM: Made backlight GPIO default state to off
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 14:11 +0100, ext hvaibhav@xxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav@xxxxxx>
> >
> > If you choose default output to DVI, the LCD backlight still
> > gets powered, since panel->disable function never gets called for LCD.
> >
> > So, during init put backlight GPIO to off state and the driverr
> > code will decide which output to enable explicitly.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this patch. You talk about choosing default
> output (via kernel boot args, I presume),
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] yes you are correct. I am talking about default output selection using bootargs.

> but the code checks for EVM
> revision. What is the connection between EVM revision and selecting
> display output?
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] Ohh ok, I think you are not aware that we do have 2 version of EVM's. EVM-1 with positive (backlight gpio) polarity and EVM-2 with negative (backlight gpio) polarity. 

The code is doing exactly same.

Thanks,
Vaibhav
> 
>  Tomi
> 

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