Re: Re HDMI transmitter interface

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:24:25PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Am 23.09.14 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Thomas:
> > 
> > On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> >>   Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:41:25 +0200
> >>   From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> >>
> >>   On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> >>> If it's GPL, we can make kernel modules.
> >>
> >>   That is not very practical for display drivers on platforms like Manuel
> >>   is working on.
> >>
> >> Why not?  Can't the boot loader load modules?
> > 
> > No, arm is typically only monolithic kernels.  There is no NetBSD bootloader,
> > just u-boot or similar.
> > 
> 
> AFAIK arm has a device tree in the firmware you use to load modules.

No, that's not how NetBSD works on these devices (at last one some of them,
including the beaglebone black). It could be used to load module
once the kernel has booted, but you want to have the console available
as early as possible.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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