[PATCH v2 01/14] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Jul 9 14:17:08 PDT 2013


On 07/04/2013 06:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb
> for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support
> so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the
> parameters via plain old platform-data.
> 
> This also removes the OF dependency as it is not needed. The headers
> provide proper dummies for the case OF is disabled.
> 
> Furthermore, we move the FORMAT-definitions to the common platform header
> so initialization code can use it to transform "struct screen_info" to
> the right format-name.

Patches 1 and 5,
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>


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