On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:28:08PM -0300, Jared McNeill wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >BTW, I'm looking at this because I need to make the LVDS interface to work > >(and turn the display on/off via GPIOs, to save power). Do you have ideas > >on how this should work ? > >We won't have EDID source in this case; for the omap controller I did > >hardcode a video mode in sources, which is quite ugly. > > If you pass a compiled version of the fex for your board > (https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards/blob/master/sys_config/a20/a20-olinuxino_lime2.fex),
Yes, I've seen this fex stuff. But are we sure it's the way to go ? >From http://linux-sunxi.org/Fex_Guide the mainline linux kernel uses device tree, and from https://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-boot I guess u-boot is going this way too. So sunxi and board makers could well drop fex support in the near future ... -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
