[RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, 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
>> paramaters 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.
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h b/include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h
>
>> +/* the framebuffer size and location is available as IORESOURCE_MEM */
>> +struct simplefb_platform_data {
>> +     u32 width;
>> +     u32 height;
>> +     u32 stride;
>> +     char format[64];
>> +};
>
> Any reason not to make format:
>
> const char *format;
>
> You should be able to initialize that just as easily in platform code,
> either as static data or at runtime, I think.

That makes sense. I fixed it up.

Thanks
David