On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:40:09PM +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote: > It is not clear to me where the hardware resources should be listed in > DT, being it a simplefb node or part of the actual hardware device node > properly marked as dynamic boot defaults or something else? It's > somewhere inbetween hardware and virtual device, and somewhat volatile. > As far as simplefb is concerned it is a hardware desription of the > framebuffer, but for a kms driver it's no more than firmware handover of > boottime settings and ceases to exists once the kms driver have > reconfigured the hardware.
Is simplefb something that should be in the device tree distinctly in the first place - shouldn't it be a subset of the functionality of the video nodes? It's the same hardware being driven differently.
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