Re: [RFC PATCHv4 0/6] arm: Initial TI-Nspire support

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon May 27 2013 - 06:32:14 EST


On Monday 27 May 2013, Daniel Tang wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 May 2013, Daniel Tang wrote:

> > The one remaining bit that sticks out is the clcd platform data. As I
> > said before, I won't require you to convert that to DT in order to
> > get your code merged, but I'd also really like to see that happen,
> > as we will also need that to get rid of auxdata on the ARM reference
> > platforms (integrator, versatile, realview, vexpress).
>
> How would you like me to convert the platform data to DT? AFAIK, the
> clcd driver isn't aware of DT so the only way is to use the AUXDATA right now.

There are two basica approaches we could take:

a) add DT support to the clcd driver, using the of_get_videomode()
helper and any other properties that need to be added.

b) add a new KMS driver for this hardware that can be used as an
alternative to the existing one and that works with DT.

Arnd
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