On Thu, 03 Sep 2020, SUNGOLD wrote: > Hi, I am a high school student and a Linux enthusiast and for my free time, > I'm trying to mainline a spare device I had, it's a Xiaomi Mi 4i > (xiaomi-ferrari), till now I've got some basic bringup (had to bring up > touchscreen Atmel mXT336T using the downstream driver as the mainlined > generic atmel_mxt_ts.c has no support, so committed a sin > <https://github.com/SUNGOLDSV/msm8916-mainline-linux/commit/6280fdb9750b1dc40dd4d769118d8ba71cbb0a0d> > ;) > > I'm currently working on implementing backlight for my panel and it uses > LM3533 for it's backlight and notification LEDS. > > I tried to find any dt-bindings docs about it and I finally found a patch > <http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20161226181153.11271-1-bjorn.anders...@linaro.org/#1545653> > that was rejected and I followed it in hopes of initialising the driver, > and it didn't work out as it was not even initialising. > > With me having almost no knowledge of C, I tried to understand the > `lm3533-core.c` while reading some docs on building a linux driver, and my > interpretation is that the driver was not written for devices that use DTS > and it was actually written for devices that use a board config file such > as imx arm based devices. > > Now I request you to add support for devices that use DTS or I might have > to commit another sin ;) > > My Github repo <https://github.com/SUNGOLDSV/msm8916-mainline-linux> > > Thanking you > sungold > p.s. just asking for advice and help, this is my first mail to a dev and a > mailing list
Good morning, Thanks for reaching out. I think your best bet is to follow-up with Bjorn (now Cc'ed). Keep up the good work. Kind regards, Lee -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
