[RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-28 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: >> If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb >> for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support >> so we introduce a platform_dat

Re: [RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-28 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: >> If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb >> for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support >> so we introduce a platform_data

[RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-26 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb > for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support > so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the > paramaters via plain old p

Re: [RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-26 Thread Stephen Warren
On 06/24/2013 04:27 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb > for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support > so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the > paramaters via plain old p

[RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-25 Thread David Herrmann
If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the paramaters via plain old platform-data. This also removes the OF dependency as

[RFC 1/6] fbdev: simplefb: add init through platform_data

2013-06-24 Thread David Herrmann
If we create proper platform-devices in x86 boot-code, we can use simplefb for VBE or EFI framebuffers, too. However, there is normally no OF support so we introduce a platform_data object so x86 boot-code can pass the paramaters via plain old platform-data. This also removes the OF dependency as