On Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:05:33 +0000, Sam Day wrote:
> If the simplefb node lacks a rot property (which would be most of them
> nowadays - it's not actually a valid prop according to kernel's
> simple-framebuffer schema), then the rot local is left uninitialized.
> This causes video_post_probe to fail to locate the vidconsoleN device
> later.
>
> Strangely enough, simplefb has been working fine on arm64 targets. It
> wasn't until I tried simplefb on my arm32 device (samsung-expressltexx)
> that this issue manifested. AFAICT, ARM64 doesn't have something like
> -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero enabled, so I suspect this has just been
> working entirely by coincidence until now. Computers are fun.
>
> [...]
Applied to u-boot/main, thanks!
[1/1] video: simplefb: fix rot prop handling
commit: 50a15eee8b100126ebe07c79af0aa22da1206fd0
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Tom
