Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
not a direct answer to your mail but very related and raising other questions / problems: jessie kernel already supports simplefb (simple framebuffer) together with newer u-boot, specific u-boot environment and a custom device tree it is possible to get a framebuffer. The specific u-boot environm

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 19:01 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > What about adding support in debian-installer to dsisplay on both the > > serial console and framebuffer? > > My memory on that topic is unfortunately a bit shady, but IIRC > this was proposed some time ago already and was dismissed

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
Karsten Merker writes: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:06:05AM +0200, Jens Thiele wrote: > >> The specific u-boot environment is needed for the lcd display >> settings/timings. Would it be an option to build different u-boot >> configurations for the different board+display combinations? > > AFAICS

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Jens Thiele
Karsten Merker writes: > Ah, so the configuration happens via specific build-time config > options and not via the u-boot environment. In that case, > building additional variants would of course work rather easily > by defining additional targets, but we would end up with a really > large numbe