On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:52:49AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:09:00PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > > > > No. simplefb just wants to write to some memory that hardware has been > > > set up to scan out. The platform requires that the clocks be on. > > > > Simplefb also requires that the memory is there and is persistent. Fine > > for discrete graphics cards, fine for rpi where most things are hidden > > from the ARM core anyway, not so fine for anybody else. > > I don't understand. This patch series isn't changing anything about the > memory aspects of the driver yet it's working for you on sunxi, isn't > it? So it can't be all that broken. > > Thierry
Oh, i had to go wrestle with UBoot options and reserve 8MB off the top, which the kernel never gets told about. A nice throwback to x86 IGP bioses, a past i had thought i had left behind forgood. Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
