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| Started by | Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> |
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| First post | 2017-08-14 20:30 +0200 |
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Re: [PATCH] arm64: bcm2837 dts: enable bcm2708 frambuffer driver for the raspberry pi-3 Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> - 2017-08-14 20:30 +0200
| From | Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> |
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| Date | 2017-08-14 20:30 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: bcm2837 dts: enable bcm2708 frambuffer driver for the raspberry pi-3 |
| Message-ID | <ueshI-7AC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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VOTARY GITHUB <github.raspberrypi@votarytech.com> writes: > From 3200cb6fd787390df1bccf1bb1f7a67ca04136fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: VT-Github-Raspberrypi <github.raspberrypi@votarytech.com> > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:57:15 +0530 > Subject: [PATCH] arm64: bcm2837 dts: enable bcm2708 frambuffer driver for the > raspberry pi-3 > > This fb drivers to make rendering full boot up logs on the screen. > > Fixed: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2156 I don't think we should be adding DT nodes for the old, downstream-only fbdev driver to the upstream tree. We have nodes already for the open source driver that directly programs the hardware, which will disable the firmware's closed-source modesetting interfaces used by bcm2708 fbdev. For early boot display, the proper solution is simplefb, not a custom fbdev driver.
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