Am 23.12.2015 um 00:03 schrieb Robert Nelson:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am 22.12.2015 um 23:48 schrieb Robert Nelson:
>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Richard Weinberger
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I own a BB-VIEW-43 cape:
>>>> http://at.farnell.com/element14/bb-view-43/4-3inch-lcd-display-cape-for-beaglebone/dp/2364756#
>>>>
>>>> By requesting "BB-BONE-LCD4-01" the cape manager loads the dtbo from
>>>> the cape's eeprom.
>>>
>>> It's actually worse then that, "BB-BONE-LCD4-01" = 16bit lcd display,
>>> while the "BB-VIEW-43" is a 24bit..
> 
> The eeprom only contains the "BB-BONE-LCD4-01" identifer...  The
> device tree overlay is built-into the kernel binary..

Ahhh, it is in the kernel binary. Thanks for pointing this out.
I was about to ask why it works even when the file is not present in 
/lib/firmware/

> The BB-View-43, swapped the red/blue color channels, so there's a hack
> for 3.8 to fix that..
> 
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel/blob/am33x-v3.8/patches/bb_view_lcd/0002-sitara_red_blue_swap_workaround.patch

Yeah, but setting to 24bits depth in xorg.conf also does the trick, no kernel 
patching needed.

Thanks,
//richard

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