In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > That there is no infrastructure (at leaste I've not seen one) for a > driver to cleanly indicate that it doesn't support modesetting. So > what do we do? Just silently ignore calls to change the video mode?
There is no such requirement (yet) in U-Boot to implement a full-featured framebufer driver with all the bells and whistles that are needed in Linux. > I didn't want to submit a driver that doesn't implement the > standard/full interface of a framebuffer driver inside u-boot without > asking whether that was actually ok. I see. Well, in U-Boot we just have "LCD drivers", and these may or may not implement fancy stuff; usually they don't :-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
