[PATCH RFC 06/15] drm/armada: move variant initialisation to CRTC init

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:18:50PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> On 07/11/2014 04:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> What's left is the display-subsystem { } entity to describe the makeup
>> of the subsystem.  That's not included as we currently need to pass
>> a block of memory, and the DT support for reserving chunks of memory
>> appeared (last time I looked) to only be botch-merged (only half of it
>> seems to have been merged making the whole reserved memory thing
>> totally useless - why people only half-merge features I've no idea.)
>
> There was a follow-up patch set for this some days ago
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/337686

Yes, I did a bit of digging a while back and found the outstanding
stuff, but it wasn't clear what's happening with it.  As it isn't
part of mainline, and I don't want to pick up further patches to
add dependencies, I decided it was better to stick with old proven
ways of a manually declared platform device for the time being.

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