On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, I don't think it should because it describes the same resources
>> that the device tree node for the real device already describes. But
>> perhaps this is one of the cases where duplication isn't all that bad?
>
> If we were worried about this wecould also do it by referring to
> those nodes and saying "get all the resources these things need" rather
> than duplicating the references (this might make it easier to work out
> when the system is ready to hand off to the real drivers).
You can have a single node for both simplefb and the later "real" driver.
DT describes the hardware, not the software ecosystem running on the
hardware. Clock, regulators, etc. don't change from a hardware point of
view.
If the firmware initialized a suitable graphics mode, it just has to add
"linux,simplefb" to the compatible property (and perhaps a few other
simplefb-specific properties).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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