On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 12:52 +0100, Jens Thiele wrote: > "B.R. Oake" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi Ian, Hans, > > > > On 28/02/15 16:18, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 11:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> > On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> > > Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of > >> > > simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are reasonably self contained I'd > >> > > happily backport them to the kenrel which is going to be in the next > >> > > Debian release too... > > [...] > > > Hans, do you agree? > > Ian, do you need me to raise a Debian bug about this last missing patch? > > Does that mean there is a realistic chance to have Olimex A20-Olinuxino > Micro+simplefb support in jessie (maybe not A20-OLinuXino-LIME2)?
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner says the platform is already there, so this should enable the FB given a suitably new u-boot. > That would be really great (somehow didn't expect that, but I didn't > look at the diff from 3.16). Last time I looked u-boot in testing/jessie > was to old, too. Did someone look at that, too? I haven't and likely won't be looking at that. I've not looked but I think that backporting the u-boot side of the framebuffer changes would be too much given the freeze etc, but who knows... Ian. -- 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.
