Hi, On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 16:28, Peng Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI Igor, > > > > > Marek, Peng, > > > > Writing to you as you were the main contributors to U-boot mxsfb driver > > implementation (i.MX23/i.MX28 LCDIF driver). > > > > I was about to start working on it's migration to DM (currently mxsfb is > being > > used on our SoM Colibri iMX7S/D), but found it a bit out-dated (no one > > introduced any changes for the last 5 years) and maybe it's really does > make a > > sense to fetch and port the latest one from the Linux mainline (in a > sake of > > avoiding divergence in implementation and continue fetching future > updates > > from the Linux kernel). > > > > So there are 2 questions spinning in my mind: > > 1) In case if you are maybe aware, if there were any intentions to do > this > > migration before? (maybe someone asked similar questions or even send > > some patches, but didn't manage to upstream that; or did similar stuff > in some > > downstream U-boot forks, whatever). Unfortunately I can't any information > > regarding this in U-boot ML archives . > > I do not have plan to work on this recently. > > > > > 2) Will it be OK if I introduce a brand new mxsfb driver (ported from > Linux), > > which will be used only when U-boot is built with CONFIG_DM_VIDEO > > enabled? Existing mxsfb will be left as it is, so I can be removed > easily when > > full migration to DM is done for all boards that are using this driver. > > You mean porting drivers/gpu/drm/mxsfb/ to U-Boot? > DM_VIDEO will be compulsory soon anyway, so I think this is fine. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
