Re: Re HDMI transmitter interface

[Christoph Egger <christoph_egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 23.09.14 um 21:52 schrieb Matt Thomas:
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> On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Christoph Egger <christoph_egger%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
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>> Am 23.09.14 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Thomas:
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>>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
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>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:41:25 +0200
>>>> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
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>>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>>>>> If it's GPL, we can make kernel modules.
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>>>> That is not very practical for display drivers on platforms like Manuel
>>>> is working on.
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>>>> Why not?  Can't the boot loader load modules?
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>>> No, arm is typically only monolithic kernels.  There is no NetBSD bootloader,
>>> just u-boot or similar.
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>> AFAIK arm has a device tree in the firmware you use to load modules.
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> That device tree, if present, is presented only to linux kernels.

Not quite true, FreeBSD has support for it.

Christoph

> And it will not help you load modules since u-boot will not assist
with that.
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