Re: Nokia n810 LCD (MIPID/blizzard) on 2.6.38

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:23:15PM +0100, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:20 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: 
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:45:43PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > The n810 LCD does not work on the 2.6.38(-rc6) kernel
> > > due to changes in the OMAP GPIO-hwmod code.
> > > 
> > > The hwmod code performs a soft-reset on the GPIO
> > > module. The first GPIO module carries the MIPID
> > > "nreset" line, which is toggled due to the hwmod soft reset.
> > > This resets Blizzard and breaks it, because
> > > it assumes the LCD was left in the state that the
> > > bootloader initialized it to:
> > 
> > so that's the bug which needs to be fixed. Unfortunately I don't have
> > any documentation available anymore. Maybe someone from Nokia would fix
> > that ?
> > 
> > > I'm wondering if a better fix suitable for the mainline
> > > kernel inclusion could be found.
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Don't depend on the bootloader :-)
> 
> Yeah that's the obvious fix, of course. However, it requires
> deep knowledge of the device and/or hardware documentation. Both
> of which I don't have.
> The driver also doesn't seem to have a maintainer.
> 
> If someone can get me documentation, I'm willing to implement
> the required bits to remove the bootloader dependency.

Someone from Nokia might be able to help. Kai ??

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balbi
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