Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:50:00 +0100
From: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
To: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel Dobato <dobatog@gmail.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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        Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: mvebu: add ethernet to the cm-a510 board
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:05:39 +0100
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> We do have a driver for the framebuffer (armada_drm) and there is great
> >> work from Russell King and others on the GPU and Decode engine (IIRC).  
> >
> > Yes, but it has no DT support. Mine has.  
> 
> Yeah, it would be nice if you two stick together once again and work
> that out for mainline?

It is not important for me to have something in the mainline: my driver
works fine enough for program development, and I don't need video
streaming. On the other hand, Russell said that his system does not
work well in a DT context...

> > Actually, as Gabriel told me that his screen is directly connected to
> > the RGB LCD output, I wrote a simple panel for him. This module just
> > gets the display timings from the DT.  
> 
> Ok. That makes it less complicated as there already should be support
> for dumb RGB anyway.

I could not find such a module, and, more, these LCD / VGA modules have
to be componentized to work with the armada DRM driver, and same for
mine.

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