Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/arm/allwinner

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

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 ...

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